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The Abolition of Ownership: 
The Natural Government 



By GEORGE REED 

Univ. of Calif. 
Class of 1877 



Copyright 1917 by George Reed 



A. CARLISLE & CO. 

San Francisco, California 

1917 






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This message of the true government is hereby 
openly proclaimed to all the world. Mat. XXIV :14. 

The true peace, the true government, shall now be 
established. The true house shall now be occupied. 
John XIV :27-29,l-3, XVI :33. Now comes the day of 
the date of whose coming no man in old time knew, 
and now comes the flood that shall sweep capitalism 
forever away. Mat. XXIV :36-39, Luke X:22, Mat. 

VII:21-29. 

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, .'All true patriots are now called upon to be up and 
doing. Luke XI :26, 27 ; Jas. 1 :22. 

Out of your tents, O, Israel ! 

GEORGE REED. 



January, 1917. 




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INDEX 

PAGE 

America, American 27, 29, 30, 33, 38 

Apothecary 75 

Armageddon 78 

Avoirdupois 73, 123 

Babylon 5, 19, 20, 26, 33, 50, 100, 158 

Caesar 7, 8, 37, 38, 93, 94, 111 

Capital, Capitalists 31, 34, 37, 43, 46, 47, 90 

Capitalism 5, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 35, 39, 44, 

45, 47, 53, 54, 61-65 

Citizenship 24, 70, 191 

City 20, 22, 54 

Civilization 93 

Commerce, Commercial 40, 54, 118, 119, 124, 127, 

138, 140, 142-145, 172 

Commercialism 7, 8, 94, 129 

Commodity 56, 113, 138, 145, 146 

Credit 24 

Crisis 22,24 

Debt 16, 24, 41, 51, 87, 88, 93, 94, 95, 108 

Dollar 54, 74, 80, 81, 116-119, 123 

Elect 101, 181, 182, 187-191 

Fear 18, 189 

Finance, Financier 41, 93, 131 

Future 7, 32, 153, 154 

Gentiles 18, 19, 149 

Glory 7, 38, 46, 71, 185, 188, 191 



ii INDEX 

PAGE 

Gorilla 12, 130 

Government 9, 19, 21, 22, 23 

Gramme 75, 76 

Happiness 93, 132, 176, 177, 178, 191 

Heaven 12,123, 150 

Hell ....21, 37, 44, 90, 93, 101, 109, 129, 144, 179 

Hypocrites 36 

Industry 14, 50, 98 

Inheritance 9, 22 

Israel 6, 14, 15, 17, 110 

Interpretation 96 

Jerusalem 6, 7, 18 

Judas 23, 72 

Justice 9, 15, 21, 26, 70, 71, 104, 110, 189 

Kingdom of God ..5, 6, 11, 15, 17, 19, 20, 26, 33, 

49, 50, 61, 70, 106, 186, 181, 191 

Labor 56, 57,81 

Liberty 38, 185 

Life 42, 43, 45, 47, 60, 61, 112, 175, 178, 182, 191 

Mammon... 5, 20, 28, 40, 62, 175 

Merchandise 13, 56, 128, 129 

Merchant 8, 40, 63, 139, 141 

Metric 75, 76, 139 

Mexico 27, 1 18 

Money 7, 8, 16, 32, 39, AO, 41, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 

63, 82, 87, 88 

Natural Law 5, 7, 9, 10, 15, 62, 182, 191 



INDEX iii 

PAGE 

Nature 10, 11, 79, 103, 105, 180 

Nobility 27, 179 

Ownership 22, 24, 25, 31, 41, 44, 46, 47, 50, 51, 55, 

56, 60, 61, 67, 70, 90, 94, 129, 149 

Peace 5, 34, 4S, 69, 98, 99, 107, 111, 189, 190, 149 

Price 121-126, 136, 137, 142-146, 150-172, 174 

Produce 23, 103 

Prophet .......17, 35 

Protection 36, 69, 94 

Ratio 82, 126, 127, 136, 138 

Son of Man 6, 49, 130, 187 

Spirit of Truth (Holy Spirit) (public spirit) ....7, 8, 

39, 47, 61, 93, 132, 143, 144, 172, 173, 174, 176, 180 

Tariff 95 

Tax, Taxation 12, 14, 24, 35, 36, 37, 44, 60, 65, 66, 179 

Thief 8 

Token 97, 115 

Troy 73-75, 81, 85 

Truth 10, 11, 16, 71, 131, 178, 179, 182, 183, 184 

Use 22, 23 

Value 54, 59, 61, 64, 78, 103, 105, 106, 112, 116, 

119, 120, 121, 128, 129, 140, 142-156, 150-172 

Woman 29 

Word 104, 179, 183, 190 

Work 42, 43, 46 

World .27, 35, 39, 45, 51, 59, 111, 179, 186 

Zion 5, 20, 49, 112 



PREFACE 

Capitalism is the state of man (human affairs) 
(life) in which ownership obtains (is practiced). 

We proclaim the abolition of ownership. 

The abolition of ownership signifies the aban- 
donment of capitalism and brings on the govern- 
ment in accord with the great frame of the 
universe, the true or natural government, the 
•'Kingdom of God.'' Mat. XXIV. 1,2. In this 
government men live, progress and develop 
in universal health, peace and happiness, the 
natural or divine order. John XIV. 27. XVI. 33. 

In this government men live in a new state of 
affairs and freely unobstructedly, grow (in) 
toward the Future Supernal. Rev. XXI. 5. John 
XIII. 34. 

This government is within you and about you 
and among you and the First or Greatest duty 
of man is to remove obstruction to its full free 
operation to fully accept it. Mark I. 37. Heb. 
XIII. 14. Luke XII. 31. Mat. VI. 33. Man has 
no intricate and difficult system of government 
to build up; his task is simply to accord in the 



**music of the spheres,** the song of the stars, 
the natural or divine harmony. Mat. XV. 9, 13. 
His government is continuous and man pro- 
gresses as he is guided by the spirit of truth and 
hears the voice of intelligence, the word of God. 
John XVII. 1 7. And the journey to (in) the 
universal perfection is continuously healthful 
and divinely happy. 

GEORGE REED. 

San Francisco, Jan., 1917. 



CHAPTER I. 

The abolition of ownership brings men into 
the true government, the government of Peace 
on Earth, Good-will among men. Luke II. 14, 
49, 50. Rev. XXII. 14, 15. In this, men are 
beyond capitalism, the (land) owning and mone- 
tary despotism; and there is no money, no com- 
merce, no monetary debt, no monetary taxation, 
no homage to the devil, no service to Mammon, 
no bondage to brutalism. 

This state of affairs accords with the natural 
harmony, for man is of the (active) creation of 
God, the natural universe, and subject to (the) 
natural law; (of advance development, growth, 
evolution, creation). And our hearts should in- 
cline us to keep this law. 

This means the recognition and acknowledg- 
ment of the transcendent development, the true 
and universal government; the Kingdom of God 
and its righteousness (method) (system). It 
fulfills the downfall of **Babylon*' Rev. XVII. 
XVIII. et al. ; and presents **Zion,*' the new, the 



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holy, the heavenly Jerusalem; Rev. III. 12. 
XXI. 2, 10. Heb. XI. 10. XII. 22, the heavenly 
government or "city,** the government of 
"Israel,** the government of perfect health, peace 
and good-will, the Kingdom of God. It is the 
materialization formalization incarnation of the 
prophecy of Heaven on Earth, Rev. XXL, XXIL, 
the Kingdom of Heaven. Mat. V.-VIL, et al. 
It is as it were the word "made flesh** the Spirit 
heard and obeyed. John I. 14. Mat. V. 17, 18. 

And it means the coming into power of the 
"Son of Man,** the glorified man, the man of 
the great future, for great men, great ideas, 
great times and great government. John XIII. 31 . 
Mat. XXIII. 27. XXIV. 27, 39, et al. 

The new Jerusalem (government) shall rise 
or clearly appear, and the old (Jerusalem) 
government, the one that killeth the prophets, 
shall fall or forever disappear. And when you 
shall see the world compassed with armies 
and the abomination that maketh desolate, the 
money power; standing where it ought not to 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 7 

stand, then know that the end thereof is near. 
Luke XXL 20. Mat. XXIV. Mark XIIL 14. 
Mat. XXIIL 37. XXIV. 2, 35. Rev. XXI. 5. 
Acts VII. 56. 

Trust in the Future, the hand of God; in the 
Natural Law, the work of God; and in the 
Spirit of truth, the holy spirit, the public spirit, 
the spirit of the Word of God. John XVII. 1 7. 

There shall be one fold and one shepherd. 
John X. 16. The fold is the true government, 
the Kingdom of God; the shepherd is the public 
spirit; the holy spirit. And the holy spirit is 
the spirit of truth. Be comforted. XIV. 26. 
XV. 26. Be confident. Fear not. Luke XII. 32, 
33-48. 

A splendid and comfortable dwelling place 
(plan) is now prepared for you— but in order 
to enter into and enjoy it you must first expel 
commercialism. John XIII. 27-31. XIV. 1-4. 
Do this and the door shall open and you shall 
enter into this splendid dwelling. Mat. VII. 6-8. 
XI. 13. Luke XI. 13. And here you shall see 
the glory that many believe they shall see some- 



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time, somewhere. And this they believe be- 
cause they hear the voice of the angel of prayer. 
Mat. VI. 1 0. Luke XI. 2. No merchant nor thief 
nor wage-earner nor banker nor betrayer of men 
nor dollar diplomat shall remain in this house 
(government). This is **my father's house,** 
and in it there is no merchandise and no com- 
merce. And in it there is no merchant and no 
thief. And in it there is no money and no 
tribute unto Caesar. John II. 14-16. Mat. XXI. 
12-16. Mark XI. 12-22. Luke XIX. 37-48. 
Luke IL I, 3. XXII. 63-71. XXIII. 1-4. John 
XIII. 30-31. XVII. 12, 17. Rev. XXIL 15. 
Quickly expel commercialism. John XIII. 27-35. 
Acts I. 4 and 1 6 and 20. Install the true govern- 
ment. Enter into this house which is your in- 
heritance prepared for you from the foundation 
of the world. Mat. XXV. 34-46. XXIV. 25. 
John XIV. 29. 

Freely receive of the spirit of truth, the holy 
spirit, the public spirit (John XVII. 11, 21-23, 
24-26) and you will accord with or in the uni- 
versal or creative spirit, the soul of intelligence. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 9 

the Will of the creation; the Creator. XIV. 
14-17, 20-29. IV. 22-24. Mat. VI. 1-15. And 
you will read clearly the justice that is written 
in your hearts (I John III. 2) for the cloud shall 
roll away and your eyes shall see God as he is. 
To be truly great you must first be accordant 
with the (progressive) (advancing) creation, the 
natural (law government plan design of the) 
universe. Seek you first the government of the 
natural universe, the **Kingdom of God.'* Mat. 
VI. 33. Luke XI. 31-34. XVIII. 19. Let the 
great drama of the world be freely enacted. Let 
the will of God be freely done. Mat. VI. 10. 
Luke XI. 2. Obstruct not the glorious natural 
work, but freely assist in the living plan. In this 
realm the great servant is the great master. 
Mat. XX. 25-34. John XIV. 10. Exalt the 
public spirit. Luke I. 51, 52. 

The grandest palace is as natural as the poor- 
est hut and man and everyman is always in a 
state of nature; a natural state. And the things 
you shall see and have not seen are as Natural 
as the things you have seen. John I. 51, 52. 



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And the true progress of man is accordance in 
the natural advance, the (progressive) plan, the 
(true) way. Obstruction to this brings destruc- 
tion to those who obstruct. Conformity with 
this procures continuous happiness for all men. 
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, the natural 
government, the true way of the Life, the in- 
heritance prepared for you. And the greatest 
happiness is obtained by seeking this way. Luke 
XIII. 31-35. John XIII. 30, 31. And sooner or 
later you shall take this way. And resistance to 
this way is unwholesome and brings punishment 
day by day. 

And when men talk of the "conquest of 
nature*' as if it were a violent strife they talk 
like capitalists, men who would own the earth, 
heirs of the devil, sons of the past (darkness) 
(hell). Mat. IV. 9. Luke IV. 5-7. Mat. XXIL 
13. Mat. XXIII. 13-15. For man advances as 
he allies himself with or unites with or avails 
himself of or merges with (the power of) nature, 
the Will of God itself. And man prospers as 
he hears and obeys the truth and follows the way 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 11 

marked out by it. John XIV. 6. And Nature at 
last cuts off and eliminates non-conformity and 
non-conformists. John XV. 1-27. These are 
withered branches, sons of perdition and shall 
never wear the seamless robe. They are elimi- 
nated and left dead in the night of the past. 
Mat. XXII. 11-13. John XVII. 12. XIII. 30. 
Acts I. 16-20. 

The mill of nature works according to the 
eternal plan and according to this plan it grinds 
regularly and sifts justly. And for the life of 
men and for the true progress of man the sensi- 
ble humane way is the easy way and is the 
progressive and prophetic way. 

Seek ye first and above all other things the 
"government,** **Kingdom** of God and you 
shall know the truth (John XVII. 17) and the 
word of God shall make you free. John VIII. 32. 

And man shall continuously glorify God 
(flourish) and enjoy the Earth. And the **Son 
of Man,** the noble man, the man who hallows 
the supernal ideal, the man of the new dispen- 
sation, the man proud of true accomplishment, 



12 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

has the divine favor and shall be acceleratedly 
glorified and by and in him (accordingly) (cor- 
respondingly) God shall be glorified, John XIII. 
31, 32. XIV. 1-3. XV. 8. XVI. 13, 14. XVII. 
1 , 4, 22-26. 

And God is glorified in every noble act of 
men. 

And the sordid man shall be left behind as 
unto the gorilla and he shall be more extinct 
than the gorilla. He shall not be suffered to 
live nor to procreate not even as a specimen of 
the beast, not even as a horrid example. He 
shall die the eternal death. And damned forever 
in darkness he shall lie. Mat. XXII. 11-13. 
John XIV. 29. He is eternally damned; bound 
hand and foot and shrouded in utter darkness 
he shall lie damned forever. 

Capitalism taxes and oppresses man for man 
can be taxed and oppressed. Inanimate earth 
cannot be taxed nor oppressed. The great virtue 
in ownership is the power to tax or oppress. 
And man shall not be taxed and the earth shall 
not be owned and there shall be free and equit- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 13 

able and abundant production, distribution and 
consumption. John X. 10. And the power to 
tax and to oppress is capital, the money power. 
And it is the scourge of God. And let men 
beware. 

Every man shall be his brother's keeper but 
not his brother's oppressor. And taxation is 
obstruction to the free and true diffusion of the 
blessing of God and to the free and true dis- 
tribution of the blessings of God. 

And men shall put fear out of the world and 
shall drive the devil, the spirit of evil, the money 
power out of it. I John IV. 18. Mat. IV. 10-11. 
And man shall abolish ownership and demone- 
tize the world and shall reduce its value, its 
"wealth,** to zero; and it cannot be measured in 
money. Ownership shall be no more and 
capital, the power of ownership, shall be no 
more, and the value of money and of all things 
shall be zero and there shall not be any pur- 
chase in money and money and money power 
shall be no more. There is no merchandise in 
the true government, the Kingdom of God. John 



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II. 16. And man's debts shall be overcome and 
passed by; i. e., automatically annihilated. And 
man shall not be chained to the past, the dead. 
And ownership is the "security** of capitalism, 
the kingdom of the devil, and it shall be de- 
stroyed. Mat. XXIV. 2, 3. Luke XXI. 5-7. 

And to tax posterity is the attempt of tyranny. 
To tax the future is to oppose the present and to 
postpone the blessing of God. And to oppress 
is to tax and to incur the curse of God. And 
every tax of capitalism is an overtax. 

And Israel is free and her children shall be 
born and shall live free. For the God of Israel 
is the God of Life. And it is insanity to love 
the hell that unto us the dead decree. 

And industrial or productive activity shall 
be free and in it all the world shall be freely 
arranged and freely blessed. And industry, or 
productive activity, production distribution and 
consumption; shall be truly regulated — not pre- 
vented nor obstructed. And the earth shall be 
used rightly, gloriously. And the whole earth 
shall be used for the glory of God and man. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 15 

And man shall glorify, shall flourish gloriously. 
And true adjustment, divine justice; shall be the 
law, and health shall never fail. And in happi- 
ness every true man shall live. 

Men shall hear the truth and the whole earth 
shall be under the true government, the King- 
dom of God. 

The (spirit of the) Christ shall reign on earth 
and the Kingdom of God shall obtain. In in- 
finite glory and in supernal beauty and in perfect 
health man shall live. The state of man herein 
is free and noble, transcendental and "glorified.** 
I John III. 1-3. Jude 24, 25. John XII. 28-30, 
31, 49, 50. XIII. 31. 

Forgive your debtors and debt is dead. Israel 
shall cast out debt and every son of Israel shall 
be free and out of debt. All Israel shall be out 
of bondage to Mammon. Is. LVIII. 6. LIX. 1-14. 
There shall be no poverty nor property nor 
Mammon. And the rich shall not rule over the 
poor. Prov. XXI. 3, 7. For there shall be no 
rich nor poor — of that sort. You shall not serve 
the prince of the world of property, the father of 



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liars, the king of darkness, debt, death and hell. 
Mat. IV. 8-10. Luke IV. 5-9. John XIV. 19-31. 
XXI. 3 1 . XVI. 1 1 . And Mammon shall not be, 
and money, the measure of Mammon, shall not 
be. And the rule of money shall not be. You 
shall serve the God whose word is truth, and 
Him only shall you serve. And the spirit of 
the Lord will be upon you. Luke IV. 8, 18-19. 
Is. LVIII. 4-6. 

The pow^er (name) of God you shall freely 
allow (hallow). The true government shall 
freely come. As heaven is (governed) so shall 
you (earth) be (governed). Your daily bread 
you shall be duly given. Your debts you shall 
be forgiven and your debtors you shall forgive. 
You shall be led away from the influence (temp- 
tation) of the devil. And you shall be delivered 
from evil. 

You shall leave behind you the world of debt, 
condemnation, death, hell and fear. 

The knowledge of the truth shall glorify you 
and this glorification shall transfigure you. And 



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you shall live in the world of truth. And Elias 
shall restore all things to the state of justice and 
the times of restitution are near. Mat. XVII. 1 1 . 
Mark IX. 12. Acts III. 21. And the eflFulgent 
era of universal and permanent peace and pros- 
perity shall appear. Acts III. 19. And the 
prophets of light shall not be derided nor 
smitten nor persecuted. And every man shall 
be efficient and so shall the whole nation be. 
And the prophets of light shall be vindicated. 
And the light of the world and the hearts of 
men shall be magnified and shall be uplifted. 

Hear ye, O Israel! We inveigh against mud- 
dlers meddlers and violators and all hypocrites 
tyrants and oppressors whether civil religious or 
military and all those who by force and by fraud 
oppose the true advance of man, and prevent 
the coming of the kingdom of Israel, the true 
government, the Kingdom of God. Mat. XI. 1 2. 
XXII. 12, 13. XXIII. 14-39. XXIV. 1-3. 

We advocate the conservation of the fabric of 
the plan, the progressive scheme of the Life of 
the universe. We uplift and uphold the light of 



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the world. John XII. 34, 35, 46. IX. 5, 15. 
III. 19. VIII. 12. We announce the immediate 
abandonment of capitalism ("the desolation of 
Jerusalem"). We announce the passing by of 
the old ** world*' or government or city, the old 
Jerusalem, capitalism, the world of ownership. 
And when you shall see the world (** Jerusalem**) 
compassed with armies know that the end or 
abandonment ("desolation**) thereof is near. 
Luke XXI. 20. We terminate ("fulfill**) the 
times and the cruelty of the gentiles and the 
treading down of the world under foot by 
murderous armies. Luke XXI. 24. We quell 
the madness and quench the slaughter of men. 
We heal the striker and the stricken. We over- 
come the wrath and the wrangling and the 
wrong among the people. 23. We cure the 
perplexity and the terror of men and we relieve 
the distress of nations. We take away fear 
and failing and misgiving and anxiety and 
despair from the hearts of men. Luke XXI. 
23-26. And we freely and abundantly distribute 
the water and the blessings of life. Mat. X. 42. 



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Mark IX. 4 1 . And we assure all men of the 
just, glorious and good times that shall come 
and glorify man (the son of man) and freely 
fill the earth with abundant good things. 
Luke XXI. 27, 28. Luke I. 51-54. John XIII. 
30-36. Let not your hearts be troubled. Ac- 
tively glorify. Help forward this movement, 
this world-wide change in the hearts and in 
the affairs of men. Zealously propagate the 
divine plant, the true government. Luke XXI. 
34-36. Mat. XXIV. 42-51. Mark XIII. 20-27. 
Mat. XV. 13. Make an end of the "times of 
the gentiles.'* Luke XXI. 24. Welcome the 
glory eternal. Prepare for the universal feast. 
**The times of the gentiles,** capitalism, is now, 
A. D. 1917, nearly ended. Luke XXI. 24. 

The true government, the truthful govern- 
ment, the natural government, the normal 
government, the regular government; the just, 
natural, universal and happy government, and 
the "Kingdom of God,** are but several names 
for one and the same government. There shall 
be no compromise, no commerce with capitalism. 



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no infidelity, no adultery. You cannot serve 
God and serve Mammon. 

We command direct action, rational, logical, 
progressive, cosmical action, action that does 
not consult the prejudices of capitalists, action 
that proceeds directly. Proceed directly with the 
work of advance. You cannot serve God and 
the devil. You cannot cling to the future and 
to the past. You see the road to the Great City, 
the City of the True Peace, Zion, the heavenly 
city on earth. Take it. John XIV. 4-6. 

Primitive quackery and archaic superstition 
will not do for the great times. Reject Capital- 
ism and all its mockery, ownership and all its 
evils, the devil and all his work. Inaugurate the 
great times. Do the great things to be done by 
men. The true government, *'the Kingdom of 
God'*; solves the problem of employment, in- 
sures the righteousness rightfulness and happi- 
ness of all mankind and excludes the indolence 
insolence arrogance cruelty falsity treachery 
thievery murder and butchery of men. 

The old government is outgrown, outworn 



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and rotten. Put on the new government, the 
new garment, the new vesture, the seamless 
robe. John XIX. 22-24. Mat. XXVII. 35. Luke 

XXIII. 34-37. Put it on and it shall cover the 
earth. And the rotten empire of ragged patches 
shall disappear. The map of capitalism shall be 
cast into the garbage gehenna. The law of God 
is yours. Take it and put it on and it shall cover 
the earth. Mat. XXII. 1-3. XV. 9, 13, 14. 
Mark VII. 7. And you shall see the restitution 
of all things, the establishment of the divine or 
universal justice, the ineffable illumination of the 
world. Acts III. 19-26. 

Occupy the new house (mansion) (dwelling) 
already built for you. John XIV. I -3. Take the 
place prepared for you from the foundation of 
the world. John XIV. 1-4. XVII. 24. Mat. 
XXV. 34. And as for Capitalism. Luke XXI. 
5-7. Mat. XXIV. 1 , 2. And as for the capitalist. 

XXIV. 50, 51. And before Abraham (Ham- 
murabi) was, I am. John VIII. 33-59. 

O sons of God; be quick, be swift, be true; 
prevail against the gates of hell and break down 



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and repeal every barrier between man and his 
true inheritance. Mat. XXV. 34. Frankly fol- 
low the comprehensive world-wide, just and 
illustrious plan. Be open, avowed, outspoken; 
doers of the word. We demand more abundant 
life. Overcome the capitalistic domination. John 
X. 10, 16. 

The world's affairs are near a crisis and men 
are about to enter upon a new era and to accept 
and enter into a new world. We demand the 
government that is not of ownership, not of 
Mammon. We are not asking for government 
ownership, for we understand that government 
ownership of a few things means no ownership 
of those things and that government ownership 
of all things means no ownership of any of 
those things. So therefore, we abandon (the 
idea of) ownership. We take the true and 
direct way and we direct you to take the true 
way. Mat. VI. 24. I Tim. VI. 7-21. Gal. I. 
3-1 2. We have taken advanced and high ground 
(Mat. V. 1-20) and we see the great city and 
we command the prefer en t use of any and 



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of all things, that use being directed to the gen- 
eral glory advance and happiness of mankind, 
the greatest good to the greatest number or 
simply the greatest good. A half-reasoner is a 
mental traitor, a traitor to the mind, a political 
judas, a fialler by the wayside, a failure, a weak 
vessel. And to half reason is to miscarry, to 
fail to fulfill, to fail to deliver. An idea or con- 
ception should be followed in the mind to its 
consequences and if it there fail in its results 
it may there be abandoned or rejected or damned 
before it is attempted and time saved and in- 
fliction avoided. For all things are conceived 
somewhere before they are born, even Brooklyn 
Bridges and steam engines and automobiles, and 
as we theorize — even the universe itself. And 
the human mind is a sort of womb or mould 
and every work of man a reproduction. The 
farmer is not the producer, he is a product. The 
producer is the active spirit of growth, the life. 
And the banking, or money and usury busi- 
ness, shall go out of the government business. 
And the government shall go out of the banking 



24 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

business. And the government shall be rid of 
the money mania. And man shall be rid of the 
ownership atavism. And what capitalists call 
* 'credit** is debt and the * 'credit system** is the 
debt system, and debt shall be eliminated. The 
debt and taxation or tribute system shall go. 
Luke XXIII. 2. 

In December, 1776, Thomas Paine, to whom 
be praise and peace, began issuing a series of 
tracts called *'The Crisis,** and in January, ] 776, 
had published his first political pamphlet, a 
pamphlet of great influence called * 'Common 
Sense.** The first number of The Crisis began 
with "These are the times that try men*s souls: 
the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, 
in this crisis, shrink from the service of his coun- 
try; but he that stands it Now deserves the love 
and thanks of men and women.** The world is 
now in a state of active agitation, transformation 
and transition and is about to hatch out of the 
despotism of dollars into the Commonwealth of 
Commonsense. You will not hatch cut up in 
pieces but will hatch entire. And we call you 



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out of your prison and into your greater citizen- 
ship, your greater activity, your grander world. 
And we call you to your greater self. We call 
you into the greater life. Luke IV. 18, 19. 
John X. 10. And in it you cannot serve God 
and Mammon. And to serve Mammon is to 
serve ownership. Those times tried the courage, 
honor, intelligence, invention and constancy of 
men, the quality of their souls; and these present 
times prove the courage, constancy, honor, in- 
telligence and invention of men and try the 
quality of men*s souls. And these times test the 
power of prophecy. And the great things we 
must have shall come to us. And they will 
come to us as we come to them. And as there 
are great things to be done and a great work to 
be fulfilled, we now mention some of the things 
or facts we have here on hand or in our stock 
store or treasury, and we indicate to you to some 
extent the means and the cost and the benefit of 
the work. Mat. XIIL 52. Luke XIV. 28-35. 
Jas. I. 22-25. 

Language is, generally speaking, a greater 



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bond among men than race or blood. And a 
common purpose, a common religion or intent 
is a greater bond than even a common language. 
And our intent is to establish peace on earth, 
good-will among men, universal justice, the 
••Kingdom of God.'* And ''the Kingdom of 
God** on earth is the great government of Man. 
The U. S. is of the English speaking language 
or civilization. The British Empire, taken to- 
gether with the government of the U. S. A., 
predominates more or less completely over one- 
third of the landed surface of the globe and the 
English language is more generally disseminated 
over the earth than any other. The western 
hemisphere contains about one-third of the 
landed surface of the earth. Of this territory 
nearly one-half is of the English language ; of its 
population much more than one-half. The other 
half is occupied by our friends, for we are 
friendly with the Latin World and are consider- 
ably latinized and much identified with the latin 
civilization. And we are the glorious blend of 
many races, and we are friends of the true 



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nobility of all the world. And all Americans 
should be great and they should all learn good 
manners. Let us make secure and magnify our 
peaceful splendor. And we are specially called 
upon to consider the glorification of the New 
World. Let us bring blessings to all our Ameri- 
can sisters and to all the world. The one thing 
among us that mars our true friendship with the 
inhabitants of the great America is the aggressive 
* 'wealth*' of this country which is trying to force 
our people to strike Mexico and oppress the 
peon. It demands that we uphold a state of 
affairs that in Mexico is decadent and even also 
among ourselves. We proclaim America Libre 
and Mexico Free. American soldiery in any 
great quantity cannot be relied upon to protect 
even the American Capital in the U. S., much 
less to force it upon any other country. Our 
duty is to help Mexico. We had better dig 
ditches and build dams in Mexico than dig 
trenches and build forts. We had better send 
corn to Mexico than lead. 

Throughout all the territory of America (with 



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slight exception) there are three great languages, 
and two are so nearly allied as almost to be 
dialects of the same language. These languages 
are English, Spanish and Portuguese. French 
and Dutch are spoken on the mainland in French 
and Dutch Guiana, and also somewhat on the 
islands, and French somewhat in Canada, etc. 
And with all of these we are friends. We are a 
world power and in our way we are engaged in 
world affairs and it becomes us to face world 
responsibility. And we will not snivel ourselves 
into insignificance and out of our true position 
and opportunity. And we will not be an 
over-burdened and top-heavy Rome for active 
savagery to pillage. Our people abandon all the 
phantasmagoria and illusion of Mammon and 
eliminate all of its insanity and all of its fears 
and horrors. As a matter of national policy our 
young people should diligently learn either the 
Spanish or Portuguese language, or both, and 
should correspondingly cultivate friendship with 
the people and endeavor to bring all of them free- 
dom, knowledge and happiness and all the good 



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things of this world. And societies to this end 
should be formed throughout America. And 
every American who enters those countries 
should be a messenger of good-will. And let 
people who are non-grata stay out of any coun- 
try. And let not their governments use threats, 
nor force, nor fraud to force them into it. Arid it 
is a policy repugnant to true Americanism to at- 
tempt to impose oppression and tyranny or any 
of the darkness of the worship of the past over 
it. And the rule of dollar diplomacy is hereby 
repudiated. The law of blood and steel is hereby 
annihilated. And the land-owning invader is 
hereby quelled and ousted. Woman suffrage 
will obtain throughout the enlightened world. 
It becomes our women to enthusiastically learn 
Spanish or Portuguese or both and to make 
themselves friendly with the women of Latin 
America and respected for goodness, nobility, 
kindness and intelligence and all of those quali- 
ties of a true woman that impel all the world to 
call her blessed. Luke I. 45-48. And there is a 
great work of Peace for all American women to 



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do and our women may learn from the women 
of Latin America, and they from ours. And let 
them all be commonly welcome as gracious 
guests and pleasant teachers. And they may go 
and come and travel on all the highways and 
byways and settle wherever it may be willed. 
And may they invariably add to the comfort, 
joy, light, intelligence and happiness of the peo- 
ple among whom they settle and of the world. 
And glories shall rise and splendors shall shine. 
And the caste distinction against the original 
native American should entirely disappear. And 
the goodness and kindness of the Latin Ameri- 
can has not heretofore been given the promi- 
nence that it deserves. And as to the true 
American citizen, it becomes us all to atone as 
far as we can for the crimes that we have com- 
mitted against the American Indian in the 
Republic of the U. S. by bringing benefits and 
true freedom to him, both here and in all 
America. And those crimes were generally 
committed by us in another day and w^e would 
not commit them now. And the wickedness of 



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those days we would overcome. The English 
civilization is in good standing with the Latin 
civilization and also with the Slavic. And more 
than half of Europe and also a large part of 
Asia is under the Slavic predominance and with 
it we are friends and will always stay friends. 
And all Germany is cooperating in war and has 
only ownership to abolish to unite in the true 
peace. And we are friends with the true Ger- 
many. And we and all the world shall forever 
tell of the glory of her prowess, her discoveries 
and her achievements. And faithfully let us 
remember. Nearly all of Africa is French, Eng- 
lish, Belgian, Portuguese and Italian. And what 
of it shall remain German we shall be told at 
the ending of this war of the ending of the 
times of the gentiles, the war of the universal 
emancipation, the war of the downfall of capital, 
and the war of the ending of capitalism. Luke 
XXL 24. And there will be peace in Africa 
and the borders there as clear of menace as the 
line between us and Canada. And Australia 
with its glorious sister isles is unstained by blood 



32 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

and filled with light, joy, promise and progress, 
and together they shall advance. And see the 
splendid future prepared for them. See the great 
microcosm of the South Seas. Asia shall flourish 
and the light shall shine. Times change. Men*s 
messages girdle the earth in less than forty 
minutes. Submersible freighters swim from 
Bremen to New York. Aeroplanes fly from 
New York to San Francisco. And to every man 
every man shall be a neighbor. Luke X. 29-37. 
And much that was considered good statesman- 
ship fifty years ago is known not to be good 
statesmanship now. And who is neighbor to 
him who has fallen among thieves? Luke X. 
3-37. XVn. And men run to and fro and 
knowledge is increased. Dan. XIL 4. And 
secrecy and mystery shall no longer be business. 
And the empire of money shall be no more. 
And evil deeds love capitalism and capitalism 
shall be dispelled. And evil deeds shall be no 
more. And all shall be revealed and nothing 
hidden. Mat. X. 26. Luke XII. 2. We are 
getting into a world of light, or rather we are 



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beginning to see — the great world, the Kingdom 
of God. We have wireless telegraphy and a 
thousand things not known a few years ago. 
And more transcendent discoveries and fulfill- 
ments have been made in the last 25 years 
of man's existence than in the previous 2500 
years and more in the last 50 years than in 
all his previous existence. And the state of 
ajffairs has come to where capitalism cannot hold 
and we naturally burst through capitalism and 
break out of the world of ownership. And we 
free man of debt and raze the prison. The God 
of Murder is bleeding to death in Europe and 
there will in due time be a cessation of this 
dreadful war. And in all America we have, 
comparatively speaking, peace. And the Stars 
and Stripes is the emblem of true freedom. And 
the true American is ever just and humane and 
noble. And the true sons of the land of the 
free bring joy to every nook in the mountains 
and to every home on the plains. There will be 
a reckoning among nations. The British Empire 
is financially bankrupt and as a consequence of 



34 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

this, its enemies expect it to disrupt. Herein 
they are mistaken, for Britain's faithful sons toil 
upward, and will reach the light of the full day. 
And the lion and all the lion*s whelps shall live. 
And the sceptre shall not depart from Judah 
nor a law-giver from under his feet until Peace 
(Shiloh) come, and under it shall all the nations 
of the earth gather into one. Gen. XLIX. 10. 
And capital is the power of ownership, the 
money power. There will be a reckoning among 
the nations of Europe and at least four will 
make some sort of an agreement and probably 
a permanent peace alliance. They have terri- 
tories from the frigid zone, extending across the 
tropics. And also so have our friendly nations 
of America. And with capital out we could 
now commune a glorious welfare. And the 
Congo can go to Cape Tow^n and to Nova 
Zembla and the Amazon to Nome and to Tierra 
del Fuego and vice versa. And we can easily 
cross East and West. And the natural lines of 
the world's distribution are N. and S. fully as 
much £is E. and W. We are showing you a 



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few facts of a treasury or store of facts. Mat. 
XIII. 52. Luke XIV. 28-35. And standing 
stark and staring before us is the gaunt, pallid, 
enslaved and suffering working world with a 
prodigious monetary debt upon it, which, ac- 
cording to the conditions of capitalism, it can 
never in all eternity pay. And Europe is assessed 
to pay in these days about 1917a tax of more 
than ten million young males and the suffering 
of women not counted. And in capitalism the 
heavy tax upon life never ceases. And the 
gnawing of the worm never ends. And the 
smoke of torment ever ascends. And the high 
cost of living ever increases. Rev. XIV. I I . 
Mark IX. 44. Is. LXVI. 24. 

Now Capitalism offers no pleasant nor true 
solution for this apparently appalling state of 
affairs. Capitalism is, or the (constituency of 
the) money power or capitalistic world is, of the 
opinion that a solution of this will be forthcom- 
ing from its chiefs, or from its chief experts or 
* 'financiers** economists or **scribes'* or spokes- 
men or prophets. And it is of the opinion that 



36 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

the world of bayonets and of bombs will acqui- 
esce in or will agree to that solution, will be 
bribed to uphold it. And of course it expects its 
own line of judges to stand by that law and by 
those prophets. Financial chief experts or priests 
or economists consider themselves to be exceed- 
ingly practical, but their practical methods in- 
clude the monetary bondage of the world and 
the deluge of blood in Europe and the blood of 
true prophets and saints and of all that have 
been murdered upon earth. Rev. XVIII. 23, 24. 
Mammonists are being discredited as rulers, and 
as philosophers financiers are known to be 
failures. And as philanthropists they are known 
to be hypocrites. Mat. XXII. 1 0. XXIII. 1 -39. 
And they desire more protection and of pro- 
tection they have already had too much. And 
the protection they demand is that they shall be 
protected in their practice of taxing the people. 
They demand protection td tribute unto Caesar. 
And they call this a **right.'* They demand that 
the body public shall cherish a wealth of dis- 
gusting and enfeebling parasites. And for 



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opposing or forbidding this the Christ was cruci- 
fied; but this was some time ago. Luke XXIII. 2. 
We forbid it now and do not expect to be even 
imprisoned, for these are not Caesar*s times. 
And we declare the world to be no longer under 
Caesar's lance; i. e., sub hasta publica; i. e., for 
sale (at public auction). The plan of the 
financiers of the world is to starve progress in 
order to fatten * 'wealth. " 

Under their plan hordes of men and women, 
both opulent and indigent, loaf while other such 
hordes engage in pernicious employments such 
as organized murder, and organized social osten- 
tation and organized public pillage or taxation 
or publicanism. Mat. IX. 10-13. And Capital 
fattens and its princes and taxers batten. And 
a world writhes in pain while hireling souls, 
servants of hell, Mammonists and hypocrites 
preach more subservience and invite more retri- 
bution. Deut. XXXII. 35. Rom. XII. 19. Heb. 
X. 28-31. Luke XXI. 22. Mat. XXIV. 22. 
Mark XIII. 20. And great Capitalistic ''business 
men,** "economists,** "statesmen,** "financiers,** 



38 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

etc., warn us Americans and tell us that at the 
close of this war of Armageddon w^e are to suffer 
from a great * 'commercial assault,*' and they call 
upon us to bear up against this with becoming 
fortitude. Rev. XVI. 16. They counsel us to 
prepare for this new^ demand. And we believe 
in preparedness. And we are prepared against 
them and against this assault. Pressed by com- 
mercial fiends East and West we will triumph 
over them all. And we will not sell our birth- 
right — nor buy it. We will take what is ours 
and give Caesar's unto Caesar. Caesar's is 
nothing. And we will maintain and sustain the 
honor of the U. S. of America and the glory 
of the spirit of freedom justice honor and truth 
in every land and on every sea throughout the 
world. And if it must be, our swift sword shall 
flame. And it is foreign to dismay and it 
knoweth not fear. We shrink from no true re- 
sponsibility and we shirk no true duty. And if 
force be necessary then with force will we be 
there. We are guided by the light of Liberty, 
and we serve the soul of honor; the spirit of 



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truth. John XVI. 13. Mat. X. 32-42. Luke 
XXn. 36-38. We have the courage of the spirit 
which is without fear and we have the soul 
which proceedeth directly from the great soul. 
We have the soul of magnanimity. I John IV. 
We proceed without deviation. We act directly. 
Hear ye. 

Capitalists think that the industries of the 
world cannot be carried on without money nor 
the civilization without ownership. And it is 
true that they cannot in capitalism. But we are 
not in capitalism, we have not that mind. I Cor. 
II. 9-16. We have gone out of capitalism. And 
all the world shall go out of it and become one 
with us. And upon ourselves we take the re- 
sponsibility of the world's affairs and all that this 
implies. Mat. XXIV. 44-47. Luke XXI. 33-38. 

We will abundantly feed, clothe, shelter, edu- 
cate, house, and encourage the people and we 
will do it in the truly economical way. And we 
do not consult the money power. We demand 
more abundant life. John X. 10. And the 
legend, **In God we trust,'* on the American 



40 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Double Eagle shall become true, and the coin a 
beautiful medallion in a world without commerce 
and without ownership. It will some time be 
shown as a piece of excellent workmanship 
executed in generally benighted times. And 
Americans will be pleased to remember that it is 
the most beautiful coin of all those antiques and 
that the goddess of liberty is elegantly engraved 
upon it and also the legend, **In God we 
trust.** And upon it nothing is said of Mammon, 
the God of Money, the devil. The U. S. shall 
live and Mammon and Commerce shall die. We 
demand more abundant life. John X. 10. The 
people are weary of the cant of the "economists** 
of baalism and sick of their endless bosh. The 
patter of its **business men** sickens the souls of 
men. And merchants and salesmen shall be 
swept off the boards and commerce out of the 
chambers. Mark XI. 14, 15-20. John II. 1-1 1, 

13-17. The high cost of living increases. We 
demand better wine and greater power. John II. 

10, 13-16. We demand more abundant life. 
John X. 10. Economic troubles acceleratedly 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 41 

accumulate and the remedies of financiers in- 
crease the disease of the world. Perhaps even 
doctors are not to be blamed for what they do 
not know. But they should not expect to be 
admired for their ignorance, nor demand to be 
retained because of their incompetence. We 
presume that any truly honest man is courageous 
enough to face a situation and to look an argu- 
ment square in the face. Now when the reckon- 
ing of the world*s affairs and accounts is brought 
up for consideration at the close of the war — 
any truly honest man can plainly see that there 
is only one truly honest salvation, viz.: the im- 
mediate and open repudiation of all national 
debts. Now, let no man who holds any mort- 
gage of any kind upon the face of the earth, 
make the mistake of supposing that it does not 
also follow, for it does. And we also announce 
that the nullification of the security for mort- 
gages, viz.: ownership, also takes place. And 
the empire of money falls. Now then, states- 
men may ask, what does this new state of affairs 
propose to do and what has it to offer to the 



42 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

industry of the world, for the world's work is 
done by men and not by money? We answer 
that we will give steady and noble employment 
to every man and every woman and surround 
him with infinitely better conditions than he ever 
had before. And we will give him an absolutely 
safe and free life insurance, and a calm, hopeful 
and active and honest heart; and peace and 
care for all the days of his old age, and in fact 
for all the days of his life. And we will protect 
him from violence. And we will give him 
abounding life and true pride and settle him in 
a land of beauty, honor, justice, Mercy and 
truth. Mat. XII. 7. And this is infinitely more 
than it is possible for Capitalism to ever do. 
Luke XXI. 15. XVIII. 29-30. Mat. XIX. 23-30. 
Luke XIII. 29-30. We hold these things in 
honor but Capitalism sneers at these things and 
its "practical business'* knows them not, knows 
not of them. We do not tell any man that he 
will not have to work nor that he will only have 
an hour's work or two hours' work a day, but 
we do say that all men should be at work of 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 43 

some kind in rational life or should be living 
rationally and constructively, or be rationally 
and constructively employed during the whole 
period of their natural potency or of their lives, 
and this by no means excludes due rest and 
preparation and recreation but approves of it 
and the joy of good men is in good work well 
done. And men put their hearts into their 
work. And we believe in fair play and in proper 
active healthful system. And out of the fulness 
of the heart the hand worketh. Mat. XII. 34, 35. 
Luke VI. 45. And moreover we will work men 
not unto death but we will work them unto life 
eternal. And the world of debt has passed 
away. And taxation is over. And the world's 
debts have ceased from troubling and are buried 
in the past and the worry of that is over. We 
are tired of capitalists railing at the idleness of 
the propertyless, and at the poor devils out of a 
job they cannot get and that capitalists do not 
give. And we despise what capitalists call "suc- 
cess.** We despise their ideal. And we scorn 
those men whom capitalists call **good business 



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men'*; brood of vipers, sons of hell. Mat. XXIII. 
15, 33. Capitalism, the combination of or- 
ganized loaferism, and the hold of cruelty 
negation and crime shall now die. Rev. XVIII. 
2, 24. We pronounce the doom of capitalism. 
The incident of its existence on earth is closed. 
The end of the day of ownership is now near. 
(1917). Man, and every man, must be in some 
servitude, some condition of mind or condition in 
life, some kind of activity, and if he does any- 
thing he must be employed at or occupied in 
something, and successful employment is the 
pride satisfaction and enjoyment of the life and 
success means the true progress of man and 
inures to his true happiness. We demand more 
abundant life. John X. 1 0. And we promise to 
every true worker, successful employment. And 
to love and aspire is never to lose. And we 
institute a new method or system of housekeep- 
ing, a new economy. John XIII. 34, 35. Owner- 
ship is the enemy of invention and the opponent 
of true accomplishment. And it sits at the 
receipt of custom or tax and opposes the true 



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advance of man. Chattel slavery is publicly or 
ostensibly abrogated and now we abrogate wage- 
slavery. We let the world truly move. We in- 
stitute the logical method of housekeeping, the 
true economy. Wage slavery is a necessary 
condition of capitalism, the state of affairs based 
on ownership; and we abolish ownership. We 
demand better conditions. We do not demand 
higher wages in order that rents and the price of 
land and material may rise, taxation intensify, 
the difficulty of living increase; and distribution 
be strained, straitened, difficult, inequitable, un- 
satisfactory, inefficient, sordid and iniquitous. 
Remove all obstruction to better conditions and 
they will rapidly come in of themselves. Be ye 
doers of the word, the will. Jas. I. 22. Mark 
III. 35. We demand better conditions and show 
you how to obtain them and by the God of Life 
and Light we adjure you to assist in obtaining 
them. 

Capitalism is opposed to the great freedom 
and we break capitalism down and remove it 
and it shall no more encumber the souls of men 



46 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

nor darken their lives. The work of the world 
will be well and happily done when capitalism, 
the belief in ownership, the spirit of Mammon, 
the devil, can no more prevent. And the new 
economy will be quickly adjusted and will 
smoothly run. The new plan is simple, effec- 
tive and logical. And the team work, the logi- 
cal and temporal cooperation; is easy and all- 
consistent, and nearly all men will naturally 
quickly find their true places, especially if they 
be somewhat lighted. And you will be sur- 
prised to know with how little wisdom capital- 
ists were governed and with what little they 
governed. We have the workmen and the 
tools, and the earth is free, and the fulness, the 
product thereof, is free; and all shall be used 
for the glory of God and the happiness of man. 
And we do not desire a superfluous and exces- 
sive and crowded population of the earth, but a 
free and noble one. We desire more fun and 
fewer fools. We demand a more practical 
world, a world of greater deeds. We induce 
free inspiration and noble expression. We de- 



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mand the free sway of the spirit of Truth with 
all its splendid consequences. We ask of God 
the glorious manhood and the perfect world. 
And let all men know that the free diffusion of 
the blessing of God is right. The abolition of 
ownership and the concomitant abandonment of 
Capitalism, the monetary, commercial and wage 
slave system, is the only thing that can be 
(truly) (safely) done, and we command you to 
do it quickly. John XIII. 27. Commercialism 
goes into the night. XIII. 31. Mat. XIX. 
24-30. Luke IV. 5-8. Mat. IV. 8-11. 

You will hatch or be born into the world of 
abundant life, of superior intelligence, of new 
freedom of grand opportunity, and of glorious 
light. John X. 10. Let the capitalist worry 
about your broken shell. Its time is past and 
its day no more. And you will absolutely aban- 
don your old capitalistic shell and it will no 
longer surround any part of you. And the king- 
dom of God is for power and glory and beauty 
and happiness beyond all that has ever yet been 
seen by men on earth. I Cor. II. 9. And if 



48 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

man can offer up a continuous bitter and dolor- 
ous sacrifice in the spirit of murder and for the 
god of property and of death he can better per- 
form a sweet and joyful duty devotion or obla- 
tion in the spirit of truth and for the God of 
Life and of Eternal and Universal Peace. Capi- 
talistic nations are murderers, thieves and assas- 
sins and they shall be done to the death. As 
Capitalism measures so shall she be measured 
unto. And even double perhaps. Rev. XVIIL 
6. They that govern by the sword by the sword 
shall they perish. Mat. XXVI. 52, 53. Rev. 
XIX. 9, 10. And if for the defense of the na- 
tion and in order to carry on war, everything 
in a country can be temporarily commandeered, 
as in the countries of warring Europe, so we 
can and will and by the power of the spirit we 
now do, permanently commandeer everything in 
this country in order to carry on the permanent 
peace and to save the world. And for this we 
strike. 

And now you know of the things that belong 
to your peace. Mat. XIII. 52. Luke XIV. 28- 



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35. Luke XIX. 37-42. John XIV. 1-3, 27-29. 
XVI. 33. And domination by the gentiles 
ends, and Babylon, which is Capitalism, the do- 
minion of the gentiles, falls. Luke XXI. 24. 
Rev. XVII. 1, 5, 15, 18. XVIII. 1-24. And 
the world is saved and the Lord God omnipotent 
reigns. XIX. XX. And the new Jerusalem the 
heavenly Zion, appears. XXI. XXII. Mat. XX. 
25-34. 

We appoint unto you a continuous year of 
Jubilee. Ps. CII. 27; Lev. XXV. 55, 42, 
XXVI. 13-46; Is. LXI. 1,2; Luke IV. 18, 19. 

We assert the will of God. Mat. VI. 10. 
Luke X. 1 , 2. 

We declare the unity (freedom) of God and 
(the freedom of) man. 

We ordain the true freedom of man and 
magnify the freedom of God. Luke I. 46. We 
advance in accord with the music of the spheres, 
the harmony of nature. 

We herald the coming with power of the 
Son of Man, the true believer, the true citizen, 



50 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

the citizen of the true government, the citizen 
of the city of God. Mat. XX. XXIV. 27, 39, 
42-51; XXV. 13; XXVI. 64. Mark XIII. 34- 
36; XIV. 62. Luke XXI. 36. John I. 51. 

We nuUify the money power. We end the 
mortgage blockade. We raise the ownership 
embargo. We free the world's industry. 

We open the door of knowledge and invite 
you to freely enter into the glorious world of 
free invention, free expression and free ad- 
vance. Luke XI. 52. Mat. XXIII. 13. 

We abrogate the institution of property and 
free you from its clutches. We deliver you 
from all of its debts and from all of its bond- 
age. Mat. IV. 8-11. Luke IV. 5-8, 18, 19. 

We proclaim the true freedom over all the 
lands and seas. They shall be cultivated in the 
glory benign and they shall be harvested in the 
grandeur comprehensive. 

We free you from all financial debts, bonds, 
embarrassments, obligations and entanglements. 
We pronounce the free establishment of the 
Kingdom of God. 



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We absolve you from all allegiance to the 
money power, the spirit of evil, the devil. And 
to grant this absolution we have plenary power. 
Mat. IV. 10. Luke IV. 8. Heb. VII. 3, 14-17, 
28; XI. 12-16. Mat. VI. 24, 27-33. The 
evil thereof was appropriate unto its day. 

We break down the empire of ownership and 
you shall not serve Mammon (riches, "wealth"). 
Mat. VI. 24. Luke XVI. 9, 13. You shall 
serve the Lord your God and him only shall 
you serve. Mat. IV. 1 0. Luke IV. 8. 

We celebrate a new day. Rev. XXI. 1-4. 
And we joyfully welcome a new world. Rev. 
XXI. 5; XXI. 6-11, 22-27; XXII. 1-9. John 
XIII. 34. 

We preach to all the world and command all 
nations to support this gospel of the kingdom. 
Mat. XXIV. 1 4. 



CHAPTER II. 

Capitalism is the name of the system of (hu- 
man) affairs in which ownership is practiced. 

**As man thinketh in his heart,*' or believe th, 
"so is he,*' so manifesteth he. 

In this book the **ism" or belief that owner- 
ship is right is called capitalism and anyone 
who holds to it is called a capitalist. He is of 
the (world) (house) (temple) (creed) (city) 
(state of belief) called capitalism. The belief in 
ownership is called capitalism and the state of 
(human) affairs under that belief is also called 
capitalism. The one is the belief, the other, the 
action or state of affairs in or under the belief. 
The Christ called capitalism **the world" and 
"this world." Capitalism is the unjust world, 
John XVII. 16, the world of tribulation, XVI. 
33, the low world, the world of Mammon, mur- 
der, debt, sin and low-mindedness, the world of 
which the Christ is not. XIII. 23. He ad- 
dresses it as **thou that killest the prophets." 
Mat. XXIII. 37. And Jesus departed from this 



54 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

world (temple) (state) and said that there 
shall not be left here one stone (law) of it upon 
another that shall not be thrown down (re- 
pealed), XXIV. 1, 2, 14, 23, 25, 27, 39, 42-51. 

Capitalism is the name of the state or system 
of (human) affairs in which ownership is prac- 
ticed. The command or power given (by men) 
to ownership is the *' Money Power,'* and is the 
power of money. 

In this book the word 'Value*' means the 
value expressed by money, commercial value. 
The word value is from the Latin verb valere, 
to be strong. 

Commerce is the interchange of ownership. 

Value points to or indicates (the power or 
strength of) ownership. 

The strength of ownership (value) is ex- 
pressed quantitatively by means of the (value) 
strength of the ownership of the monetary unit. 

This (quantity of the) strength of ownership 
is called 1 ; is specified as 1 . In the U. S. 
the monetary unit is the (gold) dollar. And 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 55 

the strength of its ownership is called 1 . Its 
(specific) value is I . 

Ownership is in negation to the true or just 
use of the earth, in opposition to the true prog- 
ress, the true freedom, the will, of God, the 
natural or divine evolution of mankind. It is in 
the denial of God, the repression of Man. It is 
in lack of the Intelligence It is without The In- 
telligence, ** without the holy city.'* Rev. XXI 
and XXII. 

The ownership of a monetary unit is the com- 
mon unit of measure of the obstruction, owner- 
ship, and is called the unit of value. Ownership 
is obstruction to the natural plan, the will of 
God, and to the true advance of man, and con- 
tinuously brings to man unhappiness and suf- 
fering. (It is an adversity to the true power.) 
It is a damming up of the true current. Owner- 
ship is negative (of true progress) (of true 
power). And the practice of ownership brings 
to the human race adversity, the lack of pros- 
perity. Vengeance is mine and I pay as I go. 



56 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Deut. XXXII. 35, Ps. XCIV. 1. Rom. XII. 19. 
Heb. 30-39. 

In this book the word commodity means 
strictly merchandise dealt in by weight. This is 
done for precision and to facilitate discussion 
concerning the commodity, money. Money is a 
commodity. 

Labor is not a commodity. The surface of 
the earth is not a commodity. The soul of a 
man is not a commodity. Rev. XVIII. 1 3. 

When the ownership of a definite weight of a 
definite commodity is accepted as having the 
value 1 , then this definite weight of this definite 
commodity is the monetary unit and its value is 
the unit of value and the commodity is money. 

The curse of ownership shall be lifted from 
the earth and money shall not be (money). 

In the United States the dollar, or 25.8 grains 
of United States gold coin, is the monetary unit 
and its value is the unit of value and United 
States gold coin is the money. That definite 
weight of 25.8 grains is considered and counted 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 57 

as 1 and its value is considered and counted 
as I. 

Money is made up of monetary units and has 
value at the rate per weight at which the mone- 
tary unit has value. Therefore any given weight 
of money has a fixed or constant arithmetical 
value. 

The value of any article or unit of merchan- 
dise is related or compared to the value of the 
monetary unit. If said article of merchandise 
be a commodity (an article sold by weight) its 
weight is directly related to the weight of the 
money that exchanges for it (the price) and its 
value is inversely related to the weight of 
money that exchanges for it. If its weight be 
greater than the weight of the money (the price) 
that exchanges for it, it is relatively less valua- 
ble; if less, it is relatively more valuable; if the 
same, it is relatively equally valuable. If it be 
twice as heavy as the money that it exchanges 
for, it has half the relative value of the money 
it exchanges for, or is half as valuable (per 
weight) as the money it exchanges for, etc. An 



58 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

avoirdupois pound of any commodity equally 
valuable with United States money is worth 
$271.31 per pound. United States money is 
always worth $271.31 per avoirdupois pound 
(and always is 271.31 dollars to the avoirdupois 
pound, the common pound weight of United 
States commerce). Any given weight of money 
has a fixed or constant mathematical value. 
The value of the monetary unit counts 1 in (the 
power of) ownership and counts 1 in commerce, 
which is the interchange of (the power of) own- 
ership. (The power of ownership is **earthly 
power.*') 

Money is that commodity whose value is 
mathematically invariably equal to its weight as 
weighed by the (weight of the) monetary unit. 
The weight of the monetary unit is always 
(counted as) 1 and its value is always (counted 
as) 1. And this unity of value is a quality or 
distinction, that is an essential characteristic of 
the monetary unit and not of any given quan- 
tity of any other commodity. The count of 
money per weight always equals its count per 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 59 

value. The fact that the monetary unit always 
has the weight 1 and also always has the value 
1 is essential to money and is characteristic and 
definitive of money. Consider value as dissolved 
in a definite common weight and you will see 
something. 

The relative value of commodities is their 
value referred (mathematically) to weight. It 
is the same as the relative values of an equal or 
common weight of each commodity. And in the 
case of the commodity money that relative value 
is standard and always counted as ] . And to 
this relative unity or 1 the relative value of every 
commodity is compared. Money has an anal- 
ogue in water in tables of specific or relative 
gravity where the weight of a common volume 
of water is specified as ] . A table of specific 
gravities is the same as the table or list of the 
relative weights of an equal volume of sub- 
stances, always supposing some one substance as 
always having the weight 1 for this equal or 
common volume. This substance is the stand- 
ard. Consider weight as dissolved in a definite 



60 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

common volume. A table of specific gravity is 
analogous to a table of relative value. 

But the great distinction of money is that it is 
wages, the material for the ownership of which 
workmen in capitalism work, and also the ma- 
terial in which rent or tribute is exacted and 
paid. Money, tribute, rent, and wages; are the 
same thing and have the same power. The 
owner, or Lord of Earth, Luke IV. 5, 6, 7, gets 
money by exacting tax, rent or tribute, the 
wage earner gets tribute by exacting rent or 
tribute, by exacting the same thing. The ills of 
mankind result from the ill use of power and 
material in the business house of human life. 
Without ownership and without taxation and 
without money men will naturally freely and 
equitably distribute the gifts of God and insure 
the general happiness of mankind. 

Money springs from ownership, monopoly, 
negation. Reduce ownership to zero and you 
permit the equitable distribution, the proper 
action of the vital power, the just or right use 
of the earth, the universal health, the kingdom 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 61 

of God and its righteousness. Ownership is 
negative of power — the divine power. And 
value points out this negation. Value is occas- 
ioned by men. And value is the divine voice 
warning men of this infraction of divine law. 
Ownership is an obstruction, a disorder; and it 
occasions disease and distress; and capitalism 
is the belief in ownership and is a mental dis- 
order, an obstruction to the Intelligence, an in- 
constancy to the holy spirit, the public spirit, the 
spirit of truth, and it is an abomination to (the 
Kingdom of) God. It is an insanitary condition 
(of the general human make-up). Capitalism 
conflicts with the Kingdom of God, the nat- 
ural government of the creation, and by ceasing 
to protect it, or by allowing the power of life its 
free, true course, capitalism is overcome, or 
eliminated like a disease. Eliminate it from 
your (cellular) structure. Remove it root and 
branch. If you serve God you truly economize 
or keep house in the house of God, the Kingdom 
of God, and you encourage the vital power — the 
power of Life — and you eliminate or abolish dis- 



62 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

ease or **cast out the devil" or allow * 'angels** 
(of the spirit of truth, the public spirit, the Holy 
Spirit) (True ideas) (true influences) (Good 
Sense) to minister unto you, or man to progress 
and be happy. Mat. IV. 8-11. 

The disease, capitalism, or the obstruction, 
ownership, punishes the body politic and costs it 
a tremendous amount of vital energy, or wastes 
or fails to properly use or utilize this vital en- 
ergy. This waste or failure is obviated or pre- 
vented in the system advocated by the Christ, 
which is without ownership, money and com- 
merce. This is the truly moral system. I John 
II. 1., etc. To serve God is to truly serve men. 
To maintain ownership punishes the body politic 
and afflicts man. You cannot serve man and 
Mammon. And Mammon is ownership. You 
shall rightly use the natural laws of the uni- 
verse. Every false plant shall be uprooted. Mat. 
XV. 9, 13. And Mammon is a false plant, a 
tare. Mat. XIII. 

Ownership is upheld in capitalism and capi- 
talism is the ownership system and it is inter- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 63 

changed in capitalism and capitalism is also the 
commercial system, and it is rented or hired 
out in capitalism, and capitalism is also the 
tribute or taxation system. Capitalism is the 
system of legal * 'hold-up,** legalized highway 
robbery. These robbers are usually provided 
with letters of marque such as patents of title to 
lands, franchises for legal freebootery, "rights** 
for committing wrongs upon the highway of life. 
Capitalism is the system of: broadcloth beggars, 
starving workingmen, honored thieves, tinseled 
murderers, lettered hypocrites, and business Is- 
cariots. It is the system of punishment and 
prisons for true patriots, of command and pal- 
aces for propertied lepers, and of praise and pro- 
motion for fawning sycophants. It is the sys- 
tem of torturers and of deceivers and of mer- 
chants and of murderers and of false worship- 
pers and of whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. 
Rev. XXII. I 5. And whosoever maketh a lie, 
liveth a lie. 

Console O Lord thy suffering saints. Mat. 
XXIV. 22. Cut off these days of tribulation. 



64 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Vindicate and exalt thine elect. Luke I. 48-52. 
Hear you O Israel. Seize you upon your inheri- 
tance. Isaiah LXV. 16-24. Col. I. 12; III. 24. 
Mark XII. Luke XX. You shall triumph who 
are of the faith eternal and thenceforth shall for- 
ever rejoice. Pressure, boys, pressure, pressure, 
pressure ! Break down ownership utterly. Break 
down the dollar dam and the dollar diplomacy. 

Capitalism, the system in which ownership is 
practiced and in which money obtains, has a 
standard unit (of the power) of ownership, 
which is the ownership of the (power of the) 
monetary unit. The (power of the) ownership 
of the monetary unit is always accounted as 1 
and is the unit of power in the Satanocracy 
called Capitalism, Luke IV. 6, 7, and it is the 
unit of commercial account. This is called the 
unit of value. The value of the monetary unit 
is called the unit of value and is the commercial 
account unit. 

Salary serfs work for units of ownership, or 
for the unity of ownership, and capitalism is the 
system of money and of servitude to owner- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 65 

ship. For the power of ownership is counted 
by means of money. Ownership is negative or 
obstructive and thereon hangs the persistence or 
progress of poverty. 

In capitalism (the use of) money is let, leased 
or lent (out) at usury or interest, and capital- 
ism is the usury or "banking" system, and the 
use of land is lent, leased or let (out) for hire or 
rent, counted in money, and so also is the use 
of men, and capitalism is the rent, the fee, the 
usury, and the Wage; system: (in fact, the taxa- 
tion system). 

Land cannot be taxed, i. e., be painfully or 
onerously burdened, but men can be taxed; 
that is, be painfully, onerously, inequitably or 
unjustly burdened. Mat. XI. 2, 8. Isaiah I. 4; 
II. 2. To favor this injustice is to favor the per- 
manence of poverty. The tax upon man is the 
single tcix. And the progress of poverty is not 
true progress, but is born of resistance to prog- 
ress — the true progress of man. And man shall 
progress in the heavenly riches. Mat. VI. 1 9, 20. 

Taxes of special kinds and in various ways 



66 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

are exacted by and conceded to Capitalism, the 
general conspiracy or cooperation of owners 
(the government of capitalists), and with part 
of this loot or tribute it bribes the pawns, peons, 
wage servants, or salary serfs, the soldiers of 
loot and lucre engaged in its preservation, con- 
servation and maintenance. But modern gov- 
ernments consist of more than this and they 
will unreservedly abolish ownership with all its 
debts, bonds, taxes and other abominations. 
Rev. XVII. 5. 

Taxes exacted by a private owner or retail 
sovereign are called by some other name, such 
as rent, interest, fare, royalty, hire, etc. Taxes 
are usually exacted in money, and wage slaves 
work for money, or for taxes, or for tax, or for 
taxation, or for tribute, or for the power of own- 
ership, capital. With money they pay exactions 
of the money power (taxation) (tribute), and 
to get it they work for the money power. Taxes 
or money is evidence of ownership. Taxation 
is the outward, visible and active sign of the in- 
ward crime, capitalism (belief in ownership) 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 67 

(belief that the state of ownership, capitalism, is 
right, belief that the life of man in the state of 
the life in which ownership is practiced and 
which is called capitalism, is the right state for 
the good of man). 

The United States cannot produce one pound 
of metal, spear of wheat, ear of corn, bale of 
cotton, fleece of wool, yard of cloth, stick of 
lumber, brick, gallon of wine, or any useful 
thing of any kind, the more, because of the 
boasted 1 50 billions of ownership that capitalists 
call "wealth** and say belongs to **us.** The 
new day dawns and you shall see great things. 
John I. 50. Like an exorcised devil that 1 50 
billion dollar thief will take wings and disap- 
pear. The cloud dissipates, the new sun shines, 
and the world is clear of debt forever. 

Abolish all ownership and all men will have 
life more abundantly and exaltedly and do all 
work easily and handsomely in the true free- 
dom, the Kingdom of God. John X. 10, 16. 
The presence of the general abundance of the 



68 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

life of man consists in the absence of ownership. 
Luke XIL ] 5. 

Ownership sickens the body-politic and re- 
presses the public spirit, and capitalism is a sys- 
tem of public debt and a state of chronic calam- 
ity. Eliminate ownership and you eliminate 
owners or obstructors, and each and every man 
becomes useful and he consequently attends to 
something useful or conducive to the general 
health, the public harmony, the peace of heaven 
and earth, the happiness of God and man. Util- 
ity is the quality of conferring happiness, and in 
men it is called usefulness. And a useful man 
serves truly in the grand scheme of our being 
here on earth. This is the first duty of man. 
And this duty demands true adjustment to the 
natural plan, general justice. And you shall 
serve your neighbor as yourself. 

You shall suddenly find no ownership, and 
no commerce or interchange of ownership, and 
that an American $20 gold piece has no value, 
and that all monetary indebtedness is dead and 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 69 

damned and buried in the desert of the past, 
where no true man is. In hell leave it. 

In the true economy or housekeeping all men 
will be naturally easily and justly worked, fed, 
educated, sheltered and clothed. And the things 
we are coming to are as natural as those we 
have passed by. And every good plant shall 
flourish among men, and the Perfect Peace shall 
reign forever. **Thou shalt love thy neighbor as 
thyself" is the expression of the holy or public 
spirit, the true or divine principle. 

The adjustment or * destitution of all things,** 
St. Peter, Acts III. 21, will be rapid, joyful and 
easy. Men are all great gainers by the new 
state of affairs. Luke XVIII. 29, 30. Mat. XIX. 
29, 30. Nine-tenths of the people hold much 
less than one-tenth of the ownership or ** wealth'* 
and at the cost of much hardship and suffering. 
The new state of affairs to all of these will be 
miraculously beneficial. Marvel not at this. 
John V. 28. Mat. XXI. 42. Mark XII. 1 1 . 

Protect the state or condition wherein all are 
truly active and human industry always happy. 



70 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Proclaim the day of judgment, the establish- 
ment of justice, the reign of (industrial) peace, 
the world of (economic) good will. Inaugurate 
the noble progress. 

The belief in the property right is a supersti- 
tion akin to the belief in the * 'divine right'* of 
despots. The government of ownership or the 
theory of property has no true sanctity, but to 
attack it is considered by the blind to be a mark 
or act of treason. But many that were blind are 
receiving sight and beginning to see that own- 
ership is without the truth or true government. 
We demand more abundant life. John X. 10. 
Be ye doers of the word. Women shall have 
their rights. And women and men in spirit 
and in truth shall live for the universal or great 
humanity, the great glory of accomplishment, 
the Kingdom of God and the transcendent world 
to be, the transcendental state of being. And 
they shall all enter upon the high and true hu- 
manity, the great and noble citizenship. 

Every woman and every man has in truth the 
right of the rejection of the evil, the unlovable, 
and of the acceptance and selection of the good. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 71 

the lovable. We will secure to every man the 
power to exercise this right. Man shall be free. 
The good shall be. Oppression shall die. Jus- 
tice shall be done. The elect of God shall 
triumph. 

The duty of each and every one is to en- 
deavor, to hear, to know and to express the 
truth; and this endeavor maintains and increases 
the true happiness of the world. John XVIII. 
37, and XIX. 37. And every good thing is 
added to this endeavor. Seek ye first the King- 
dom of God and it will include for you all good 
things. The Truth is the word of God, the ex- 
pression of nature. John XVII. 1 7. And the 
truth in you is your highest expression, the ex- 
pression of your nobler nature, and you have a 
language of deeds and of natural accomplish- 
ment. You will easily eliminate crime and suf- 
fering from the race when capitalism does not 
darken your eyes to the true light, the Light of 
the World. By this light the truth is seen and 
heard, for the "sixth sense*' perceives by this 
light. Men can hear without ears and see with- 



72 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

out eyes, or by the light and power immortal. 
And the Money God shall no more glut the 
market with wage slaves nor strew it with mur- 
dered men. For Ownership is no more and the 
money God hath ceased to reign and the mar- 
ket hath ceased to be. Rev. XVIII. 8-24. Mat. 
IV. 1 0. Luke IV. 8. 

Do the right thing in the right time. Expel 
Iscariot instantly. John XIII. 27. The right 
thing to do is to abolish ownership. The right 
time to do it in is Now. 

We demand more abundant productiveness. 
John X. 1 0. 

We demand more splendid housekeeping. 
John X. 1 0. 

We demand the greater glory of men and the 
greater glorification of God. John X. 10. Mat. 
XX. 25. 

We demand the establishment of the supernal 
glory upon earth that for us is willed in Heaven. 
JohnX. 10. Mat.VL 10. 

Amen. 



CHAPTER III. 

In order to explain the nature of money it is 
necessary to know somewhat of the subject of 
weight. 

The grain Troy, avoirdupois and apothecary 
are one and the same. 

Avoirdupois 

Grain Dram Ounce Pound Gramme 

7000 - 256 = 16 = 1 = 453.59 
437.5 = 16 = 1 = 

27% =1 

The avoirdupois pound is a common unit 
weight of that part of the earth which includes 
the British Empire and the United States, and 
the grain is the common unit weight of that 
great area. For it is through this common grain 
weight that the various British and United States 
systems of weight are mentally assimilated and 
differentiated or marshaled into their proper rela- 
tive position. The word **avoirdupois** is from 
avoirs du pois, goods of weight, that is, heavy 
goods. 



74 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 







Troy 




Lb. 


Oz. 


Dwt. Grain 


Gramme 


1 = 


= 12 = 


24 5760 


373.2419 




1 = 


20 480 


31.1035 






1 24 


1.5552 






1 


0.0648 



A Troy ounce, or 480 grains, is the standard 
weight used in the United States for weighing 
gold, and by it crude gold is received at the 
mint. By crude gold we mean gold not in the 
form of United States money. Silver is also 
dealt in or weighed in the United States by this 
weight, but silver is not used as money in the 
United States. The United States Government 
at its treasury, mint, assay offices, etc., counts 
the Troy ounce, by tenths, etc., or decimally, 
and does not count its gold and silver in the 
Troy pound nor in **penny^weights** nor **grains,'* 
but the unit mint weight, or unit weight for 
United States minted gold, which is the United 
States money, is 25.8 grains, and is the weight 
of the gold dollar. The gold dollar is the mone- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 75 

tary unit. And (the power of) its ownership is 
counted as 1. This is its ''purchasing power.'* 

The Troy pound is in Uttle or no use either in 
England or the United States. The Troy system, 
named from Troyes, France, where a great an- 
nual fair was formerly held, is said to have come 
to Troyes from the "levant** or eastern Mediter- 
ranean. The Troy pound weighs exactly the 
same as the apothecary pound. 

Apothecary 

Lb. Oz. Dram Scruple Grain Gramme 

1 = 12 =- 96 = 288 = 5760 = 373.249 

I = 8 = 24 =- 480 -= 31.108 

1 = 3 = 60 = 3.888 

1 = 20 = 1.296 

Metric 

The gramme, or gram, of the Metric system 
divides decimally into deci-, centi-, and milli- 
gram, and multiplies into deka-, hecto- and kilo- 
gram. 

The kilogram, or kilo, of 1000 gram, is the 
unit weight for weighing heavy articles, but the 



76 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

basis of the system is the gram. The gram is 
usually the unit of weight in experiments where 
small quantities are used and great delicacy in 
weighing practiced. 

1 gram =- 15.432 grains. 1 Lb. Av. = 453.59 
gram -= .45359 kilogram. 2.2046+ Lb. Av. = 
1 Kilogram. 0.0022 Lb. Av. - 0.03527 Oz. 
Av. = 1 5.432 grain. Av. = 1 gram. 

(15432.356639 grains == 1 Kilogram "inter- 
national kilogram'* 1884.) 
Yard Foot Inch Metre or meter 

1 = 3 = 36 = 0.91438 

1 = 12 = 3.30480 

39.3708- 1.00000 

One meter is one forty-millionth of a merid- 
ian, or circle passing through the poles of the 
earth. 

The weight of one millilitre or cubic centi- 
meter of water is one gram (at 4 degrees centi- 
grade, its greatest density, and at the ocean 
level). A ten-centimeter cube of water con- 
tains a thousand millilitre or I litre or liter, 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 77 

weighs a thousand gram, a kilogram, or kilo. 
This volume is a litre. A litre of water weighs 
a kilo. A great advantage of this system is that 
under it man insensibly absorbs a fair idea of 
specific or relative gravity, and therefore of the 
physical world, the world in which man is an 
active factor. For instance, if a litre of any 
substance weighs two kilo its specific gravity is 
two, etc. A millilitre or cubic centimetre is 
usually called a **cc** or **cee cee,'* by chemists, 
etc. 

The weight of any substance may be mentally 
considered as dissolved in its volume. In tables 
of specific gravity, with water as the standard, 
water may be regarded as the substance where 
one weight is dissolved in one volume, or that 
has the standard weight per volume. The vol- 
ume and weight of water supposedly do not 
change, and its **specific*' gravity is taken as I. 
(Its gravity or heaviness is counted as 1 .) Pure 
cast lead weighs 1 1.352 as much as the same vol- 
ume of water, and by this rule pure cast lead has 
the sp. gr. 11.352. (In scientific practice the 



78 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

weight of water is usually taken at the sea level 
and at 4 degrees centigrade, its greatest density. ) 

In articles sold by weight, value may be con- 
sidered as dissolved in weight. There exists no 
value in any weight or in any material. It is an 
indication, an impression upon the mind, a qual- 
ity pointing to or resultant from ownership. So 
it is fair to assume that there exists no weight 
in any material. If this be so, where does this 
weight exist? Probably it is an illusion of the 
human mind; or, rather, we (commonly) have 
an illusive, hallucinative or unscientific idea of 
weight and also probably of matter. And there- 
fore of the world (of matter). That is, weight 
is a quality pointing to something as yet not 
ascertained, described or understood. And it 
is very likely that clear theories concerning mat- 
ter and mentality or spirituality may appear. 

And new fields, new pastures are pointed out 
to you, and into them you are to be led. You 
are to experience great mental advance, and are 
on the border of great revelation, discovery or 
enlightenment. You are to clearly see where 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 79 

before darkness completely baffled your mental 
vision. And perhaps even weight itself will be 
"overcome** as it affects the human organism. 
Weight, like light, is radiated from gravic centers 
according to the law of inverse squares, and 
some things that are important and generally 
novel may be said concerning weight. And as 
man knows more of the world he "rises,** or his 
vital horizon, or sphere, includes more. And 
as man lives in a more logical house his health 
improves. Gravic centers are strongly heated 
or molecular ly excited and how **the balance of 
nature** is maintained will yet be completely re- 
vealed, for all shall be revealed. But first, put 
your scientific house in order, or put capitalism 
out of it, or seek or find, first, the true policy of 
man, the Kingdom of God and its righteousness, 
that Light shall come to every man. The solu- 
tion of the questions, or facts, or wonders, or 
miracles, of Nature will then be simple and will 
be rapidly added unto you, or revealed. But 
first accept (demand) your redemption (from 
Capitalism). 



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And to those who have much knowledge 
much shall be given, but to capitalists or believ- 
ers in ownership none can come, for by what 
measure it may come to them, by that measure 
cease they to be capitalists or harborers of cap- 
italism, worshippers of error, victims of igno- 
rance, abettors of inquity, lovers of darkness. 
Luke XII. 47, 48. 

THE DOLLAR WEIGHT 

is the unit weight with which is weighed the 
money of the United States. It is the weight 
of the monetary unit, or dollar of 25.8 grains 
**Troy*' of United States minted gold. The 
minted gold of the United States is the money 
of the United States. And this 25.8 grains is 
to be considered as an entirety, or as 1 , and 
counted as an arithmetical unity, or as 1 . The 
United States dollar contains 23.22 grains of 
pure gold and 2.58 grains of pure copper, or is 
nine-tenths or .900 fine and weighs 25.8 grains. 
The United States * 'silver dollar'* is not truly 
a dollar. It is a * 'silver dollar'* and is a repre- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 81 

sentative or token for the dollar, just as is a 
**paper dollar.'* 

The **struggle** between "Capital and Labor'* 
is the struggle of Capital, the power of owner- 
ship, against progress; of the Money Power 
against true government; of hell against Heaven ; 
of ignorance against Intelligence. Upon this 
abolition of ownership you wll no longer think 
of the burning of San Francisco as the loss of a 
quantity of dollars or of so much (power) of 
ownership. 

Three hundred and eighty-seven Troy ounces 
of pure gold alloyed with 43 Troy ounces of pure 
copper makes 8000 dollars at the United States 
mint, or 43 multiplied by 9 equals 387; 387 
plus 43 equals 430; 8000 multiplied by 25.8 
grains equals 206,400 grains equals 430 ounces 
Troy. 

A dollar of the United States contains 23.22 
grains of pure gold. To divide 480 by 23.22 
gives the number of dollars that contain the 
gold of a Troy ounce of pure gold, which is 
20.67183+. Pure gold in commerce is worth 



82 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

$20.67 per Troy ounce, the price given for it at 
the United States mint. But it is worth slightly- 
more than this, for 480 divided by 23.22 is ex- 
actly 20.260/387, and this multiplied by 387 
gives 8000, confirming the United States mint 
rule that 387 ounces of pure gold is used in mak- 
ing $8000. The value of a Troy ounce of 
United States money is nine-tenths of 
$20,260/387, or $18,234/387, or $18.60^^%87, 
or very near $18.60. The copper is an expense 
to the government, and so is the minting. 

An avoirdupois pound of pure gold is 7000 
grains; divide 7000 grains of pure gold by 23.22 
to get its value in dollars, v^hich is $301.46+. 

If you divide 20.67 by the price of silver in 
cents per ounce, the result is the ratio between 
silver and gold at that price. For instance, di- 
vide 20.67 by 53, the result is 39, which is the 
**ratio** between silver and gold at the price 53 
cents per silver ounce. It means that 39 ounces 
of pure silver, usually called "fine silver,** has 
the same commercial power as one ounce of 
pure or **fine gold,** or that these weights of 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 83 

these commodities in commercial exchange are 
of equal value. At 60 cents the ratio would be 
34.45, at 50 cents it would be 41.34, etc., etc. 
The United States coins or mints free of 
charge (except for work done for foreign coun- 
tries). A merchant reckons a demand promis- 
sory note against him as indebtedness. The gov- 
ernment of the United States is supposed to rep- 
resent the people of the United States. There 
is no * 'profit*' to the United States Government 
in coining silver into silver dollars. It is like 
coining paper into paper dollars, which is to coin 
a promise to pay. This shows that value points 
to debt, and debt is sin, and sin is economic de- 
linquency, the negation or non-fulfillment of the 
right state or condition of activity or life. Debt 
is sin, economic, public or moral delinquency, in- 
compliance with the demand of the holy or pub- 
lic spirit, the just spirit or spirit of justice, in- 
tellectual adjustment — spirit of truth. Intelli- 
gence. We have been borne, as it were, uncon- 
sciously, from the dark past to here. But this 
spirit or influence will now lead us onward from 



84 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

this civilization and forward into the immortal 
and eternal home of the blessed. John XIV. 1 , 
2, 6. John XVI. 12-15. Feed my lambs. John 
XXI. 15. I John IV. 1. Rev. XXI. 5. 

* 'Economy** is good housekeeping. Economic 
delinquency is imperfect housekeeping, bad gov- 
ernment; and all sins, error, diseases, debts, de- 
linquencies, shortcomings, etc., come under this 
head. They are debts. Do away with our 
debts. Forgive us our debts. They are not in 
truth, not in the true economy. They are un- 
economical, unphysiological, unphysiocratic 
("unconstitutional**), unrighteous, irrational, 
unholy, unchristian, unsaintly, unglorified, un- 
godly. The world pays or expiates as it goes 
and it owes nothing to the past. There is no ob- 
ligation upon any man nor upon man to main- 
tain or to cherish or to worship any debt or dis- 
ease among us. And all debts, diseases and 
shortcomings are ''uneconomic;** not in good 
housekeeping. And we who are of the glorified 
demand that the blind, the ulcerous, the treach- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 85 

erous and the ungodly shall be quickly elimi- 
nated. John XIII. 27-31. 

Fourteen and seven-twelfths ounces Troy is 
one pound avoirdupois. Multiply pounds avoir- 
dupois by this number to convert them into 
ounces Troy. The pound Troy is to the pound 
avoirdupois as 5760 to 7000, or 144 to 175, or 
72 to 87.5. The ounce Troy is to the ounce 
avoirdupois as 480 to 437.5, or as 192 to 175, 
or as 96 to 87.5. 

Salt very likely was the first money. Up to 
a recent date, say 1890, it seems to have been 
used as money in portions of the Soudan and in 
parts of Abyssinia, and in other places. 

The words **seir' and **sale'* belong to the 
great family of **salt'* words: sal and sel are 
Spanish and French for salt. Sold, solder, solve, 
salve, health, hale, holy, save, salvation, solu- 
tion, solid, soldier, are of this family. Soldo is 
Italian for about a United States cent. Five cente- 
simi equal 1 soldo, 20 soldi or 100 centesimi 
equal I lira, the same metal with the same value 
as a French franc and interchangeable with it 



86 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

throughout the **Latin Union.*' A French sou is 
5 centimes ; 1 00 centimes, or 20 sous, is 1 franc. 
The word sou is "popular** but not ''official** 
monetary French. The coin popularly called 1 
sou is marked cinq centimes and the coin called 
2 sous is marked dix centimes. In like manner 
the French gold 20 franc piece is popularly 
called a * 'napoleon.** Solde is old English for 
wages. The modern Spanish and Italian is sueldo 
and soldo. Old French for sou is sol and sold, 
all derivatives of solidus. When anything is 
traded for money it is sold, made solid, metal- 
ized, or "realized.** The first Roman coin was 
called a solidus and designated as the daily pay 
of a soldier. His pay after this was called his 
solidarium, which before was paid or reckoned 
in salt and called his salarium, or salary, his 
bribe. The word soldier is derived from solidus 
and the word solde is obsolete English for salary 
or military pay, and later also for civil wages. 
The Italian soldo, the French sous, emd the Eng- 
lish sold, etc., are near relatives of the latin soli- 
dus. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 87 

The use of money precedes any regular sys- 
tem of coinage, and old-time ingots of irregular 
weights and also of regular weights were coins 
of money and in use before any country had a 
regular or exclusive coining place or mint. In 
payment for the field of the Cave of Machpelah 
(Gen. XXIII.), Abraham weighed to Ephron, it 
is claimed, 1660 B. C, 400 shekels of silver 
"current money with the merchant,*' meaning 
probably the accepted or standard money bul- 
lion. In China today pure silver is the accepted 
money of commerce, the * 'current money with 
the merchant.** The commerce of Tyre, said to 
be 588 B. C, was extensive and carried on prob- 
ably without a regular system of coinage. See 
Ezekiel XXVII. for an idea of its variety and 
importance. But there is much doubt as to the 
true date of most prophetical writings. 

If all nations had a uniform monetary unit, 
say a definite weight of pure gold, it would lead 
to quick general knowledge of the enormity of 
the general debt. To eliminate debt is the duty 
of man. Eliminate this debt. Eliminate the 



88 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

**economic** disease of the world, the taxation, 
the waste, the debauchery, the ulceration, the 
degradation, the degeneracy, and the unregen- 
eracy. The debt of the world is **uneconomic,** 
i. e., opposed to good housekeeping, i. e., op- 
posed to good public policy. It is opposed to 
the welfare of man. It is opposed to the health 
and happiness of the human race. 

Money is always dealt in by weight, even 
though regularly coined pieces of it are simply 
counted. Coins are counters. Coins of money 
serve to count themselves and thereby also to 
count their own value, which is in the propor- 
tion of 1 value to I weight. In the money of the 
United States it is 1 value to every 25.8 grains, 
or dollar weight. The Eagle is 258 grains of 
United States money, or 10 dollars. The value 
of one dollar is the unit value of the United 
States. The **1 value** of a monetary unit is 
the "account unit** of commercialism and there- 
fore money has a constant arithmetical or ac- 
count value to any given weight. 

To state the value of any merchandise sold 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 89 

by weight is to state the weight of money that 
a given weight of it is worth and the weight of 
money is the price. If the commodity be money 
it is worth itself, or is itself. 

Token coins are practically demand notes, 
and when "good** for the money they cour' 
upon their face, they stand at par. They repre- 
sent the power of the ownership of the weight 
of money which they designate. The United 
States declares by an act of Congress that it 
will protect at par its tokens or pledges, paper 
as well as metal, **in the markets,** and of course 
this is its duty in capitalism. In capitalism it is 
**in honor bound'* to maintain the world in 
money slavery and in degradation. Therefore, 
in ultimate case, it must stand ready to give 
gold for these tokens, dollar for nominal dollar; 
and therefore the gold coin of the country, the 
only money of the country, is sometimes called 
"the money of ultimate redemption.** It is also 
called the "basis** of the monetary "system.** 
But the "basis** of any monetary system is the 
error or ownership. Upon this is built the arro- 



90 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

gant "system'* of money known as **the single 
gold standard,** and also the "alternative sys- 
tem,'* or "double standard of value" system. 
This system obtained from 1783, when the 
United States mint was established, till the law 
of 1873 precluded silver money from the "land 
of the free** and from the hut of the slave in 
order to please the bondholder. But "ultimate 
redemption** truly consists in the ultimate aban- 
donment of ownership, the abandonment of the 
last bit of ownership. It is obvious, axiomatic, 
that the world free of ownership does not serve 
the devil and is out of hell and is free from the 
grip of the bondholder, and free from mortgage, 
the grip of death. 

Abolish ownership absolutely, unreservedly, 
and "settle** the "money power** and its debts. 
Reduce ownership to zero and free man from its 
bonds and bondage. Luke XXI. 28. Establish 
"the elect** in Israel and welcome the coming of 
the "Son of Man.** Be awake, and — Watch. 
Mark XIII. 

For every capitalist. Mat. XXIV. 50, 5L 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 91 

There shall not be a public debt or monetary 
bondage. And government shall not be a man- 
killing burden. Government shall be glorifica- 
tion. 

Any piece of paper money is a demand note. 
And if A who owes B $10 gives B a United 
States $10 bill B has accepted the taxed indus- 
trious activity of the people of the United States 
as debtor, or pawn or peon or thrall or as * 'se- 
curity** and B is "satisfied.** Nevertheless the 
claim against the general peon still remains. A 
bill successively settles claims between individ- 
uals. It is done by a change of owners or "cred- 
itors,** the industry of the United States owing 
the bill all the time. The same may be said of 
token coins. The government stands as the 
jailor or guardian of the thrall. The govern- 
ment of Capitalism holds the thrall in duress or 
in "security** for the debt. In Capitalism men 
live in a system of peonage, the peon (pawn) 
being the industrial activity and the lord being 
the devil, "the prince of this world** (the bond- 
holder). John XII. 31. Luke IV. 5-7. It is 



92 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

meet that men should be servants, but it is not 
meet that they should be servants of the devil. 
Mat. XX. 25-34. Mark IX. 35. Luke IV. 8. 

Miscreants, misbelievers, believe in the sanc- 
tity of ownership. Property is plunder, taxa- 
tion is tribute, interest is legal pillage. To tol- 
erate usury is to condone despotism. To collect 
interest-bearing debt by law is to burden men, 
to pawn industry, to empeon men, and to pre- 
vent true advance. Ownership represses the 
true government and oppresses man. Arise, let 
us go hence. John XIV. 3 1 . 

The United States treasury, or fiscal establish- 
ment, is a continuous business house or inter- 
est, and has many sources of revenue or in- 
come, all comprised under the one head of tri- 
bute or taxation, and may have bills or obliga- 
tions out whose amount is far greater than the 
gold it has in the box, case, caisse, cash, or treas- 
ury, for redemption. These obligations shift 
owners, or payees, continuously, and when these 
tokens are **in circulation** they are not in the 
United States treasury box or redemption cen- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 93 

ter. We deal with an active and continuous 
state of affairs. We deal with the civilization 
of the world. And the light of the world shines 
in the spirit of truth. 

Behind the money power bench the modern 
rifle takes the place of Caesar*s spear and tells 
the old, old story of murderous conquest and of 
brutal glory. Luke II. 1; XXIII. 1-5. The 
money power rules by menace, and **does busi- 
ness** on debt or debit usually called **credit.** 
The time or delinquency or debt element enters. 
You are imprisoned, or "doing time** for the 
money power. The money power holds you 
under the aggregate bonded debt of the world 
and wastes your blood, darkens your time, mort- 
gages your future, and opposes your happiness; 
and it would sink you into the greatest tribula- 
tion, the most agonizing hell. Luke XXI. 25, 26. 
Be not discouraged. Mat. XXIV. 29-3 L Your 
redemption draweth nigh, Luke XXI. 28-3 L 
Stand steady for the Freedom of the World. 
Override the insolence of finance. Overthrow 
your debts. Enter determinately upon immortal 



94 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

advance. Terminate Ownership, mother of Mer- 
chants and Abominations. Rev. XVII. 5. Uplift 
and uphold the light of the world. John XII. 32, 
35; VIII. 12; IX. 5. 

Import duties are consecrated to the govern- 
ment bondholders or set aside for the payment 
of the national debt, and therefore this tariff 
question requires no end of * 'statesmanship,** 
for many other thieveries or "grafts** are also 
protected. These duties serve to honor the obli- 
gation of the national debt. They uphold the 
degradation of the people and the disgrace of 
the nation. They are a * 'protection" for monop- 
olies within the boundaries of the country and 
they help to sustain the system of tribute, the 
Caesarism of Capitalism, the commercialism of 
Judas. An import tax or duty so high as to be 
utterly * 'protective** allows no import on that 
article and furnishes no revenue to the general 
government. A neatly adjusted lower duty 
might furnish revenue and still to some extent 
"protect.** A free tariff, or no duty, does not 
"protect** local ownership or monopoly, native 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 95 

or domestic commercial pillage. And it does not 
furnish any * 'squeeze'* revenue, graft, money, 
for any "business** holdtip. 

So we have high tariff men, low tariff men, no 
tariff men, and ** tariff for revenue only** men. 
Every tariff, or tax, is **for revenue only.** **No 
tariff'* men find that it takes rivers of money to 
feed the Money Power, the **beast.** And the 
more he is fed the hungrier and the more fero- 
cious he becomes. 

All large contracts of indebtedness in the 
United States are practically payable only in 
gold coin. The interest-bearing debt both public 
and private of nearly all of the world is of gold. 
Aggregate interest is continuous "income** or 
tribute paid to the deviFs empire, or to hell, for 
the government of debt is hell. And capitalism, 
the government of ownership, is the government 
of debt. The "gold clause" is in effect in every 
United States contract of debt. By an act en- 
acted by the Congress of the United States the 
United States government engages, pledges or 
pawns the peons, commons, or common people 



96 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

of the United States to * 'maintain the equal pur- 
chasing power of all its moneys," real and 
token, **in the markets.** Nevertheless, in legal 
contracts for the payment of money between 
individuals in the United States the **gold 
clause** usually appears. A "constitutional law- 
yer** may assert that the United States Constitu- 
tion is "against** anything that might "impair 
the obligation of contracts** or interfere with 
"vested rights.** But the times of this ignorance 
are to be winked at. Acts XVII. 29-32. And it 
all depends upon the interpretation. And it 
may be that some "vested rights** are invested 
wrongs. No contract of degradation is binding, 
even though it degrade the whole nation. And 
a wrong is not a right, even though it be called 
the "right** of property. And, by the way, lest 
we forget to tell it later, we will maintain that 
"equal purchasing power** at zero. The Consti- 
tution of the United States is to be interpreted 
nobly, and knowingly, can do no wrong. And 
if any judge hold to the darkness of the past let 
him be Anathema. The light of the world 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 97 

comes. Maranatha. I Cor. XVI. 22. And to 
you. 23. 

Tokens are used advantageously for settling 
the numerous; usually small and short-lived obli- 
gations, which nevertheless are very great in 
amount and aggregate importance, and which 
are incurred continually among the common 
people. But the strangle-hold, death-grip mort- 
gage, and money-lending interest, is the great 
debt or bond-holding interest. Payment, princi- 
pal and interest, to this must be in the gold coin, 
the money of the United States. The bond- 
holding interest, the great tribute-taking hog- 
gery, the monied supremacy, the money-lending 
tyranny, the blood-curdling incubus, holds the 
world mortgaged and men terrified. Luke IV. 
6-8, 18. Isaiah LXI. 1-4, 8-1 1. Money Power 
princes, princes of gentiles, hold the land con- 
quered and men bound in debt and in fear. 
They tax industry and retard advance while 
wage slaves sustain this system and tremble 
on the rim of death. And * 'Business'* usually 
maintains wage slaves in fear and degradation. 



98 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

But some wage slaves it feeds at fat tables and 
clothes in soft raiment. Behold, they which are 
gorgeously apparelled and live delicately are in 
kings* courts. Luke VII. 25. (Money Kings.) 
Capitalists fawn upon wealth or Mammon and 
worship the devil. Hirelings care not for the 
sheep. Mat. IV. Luke IV. John X. The state 
of mind called capitalism is wage slavery and it 
is dark, ignoble, brutal, cruel, unjust and unglori- 
fied. It is antichrist. John IV. 3. It is not to be 
found in the world of intelligence, peace and 
good-will. It is without the holy city and among 
dogs, sorcerers, merchants, murderers, heretics 
and liars. Rev. XXII. 15. 

Before the French Revolution ** Milady,** in 
order to sleep quietly, set thousands of peons or 
peasants to beating the marshes with switches 
that frogs should not croak. This **furnished 
employment** to **French industry.** There 
came a bloody revolution. If revolution come 
here, and men be in the dark, and starless, and 
unguided, American blood will flood the land to 
horses* bridles. Rev. XIV. 19-20. That shall 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 99 

never be, for we shall be ** within the (holy) city 
and without the wrath of God." 

The true peace is in the government which 
does not admit of Mammon or monopoly, and 
monopoly is ownership. Money is a conse- 
quence of ownership. No ownership means no 
value, and no value means no money. The 
**Kingdom" or **government** of God is a state 
of affairs in which money cannot enter (be) and 
into which no **rich man" can enter, meaning, 
of course, no man with money. In it there is 
no monetary taxation, no * 'economic** misrule, 
no meretricious ostentation, no devil in com- 
mand, and no hell to pay. Rev. XVIII. 1-7, 18. 
Luke IV. 5-8. It is a system of affairs without 
ownership and without commerce and * 'without 
money and without price** and not **a house of 
merchandise.** John II. 16. To drink of this 
idea is to drink of the truth of heaven, the 
** water of life,** the * 'living water,** which is 
"without money and without price.** John IV. 
"Whosoever will, let him take of the water of 
life freely,** i. e., without money, without price. 



100 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

untaxedly, unhinderedly. I John V. 8. Luke 
VI. 38. Ownership is in the natural negation, 
the brutal ineptitude, the denial of God, the 
work of the devil. And money is a consequence 
of ownership. And logically, money is regarded 
not as the evil but simply as an inevitable and 
natural attendant or symptom or concomitant of 
the evil state or condition or **system.'* 

In the Money Power there is no health, and in 
it there is no help, no hope, no remedy, no sal- 
vation. Money is a sign, a symptom of the 
beastly disease, ownership. And it is distinc- 
tive. It is **the mark** of the beast. It is the 
symbol, the sceptre of Mammon. It is the 
**mark** of the mercantile money-counting or 
putative world. Rev. XVII. 5, 15, 18. Putare is 
to count. And the Babylonish woman is the 
woman V'/ho counts money (capitalist). 

You cannot serve (the true) God and (the 
God of) ownership. Choose ye the house of 
Eternal Life, the home of happy (human) life. 
You cannot uphold the aristocracy of Satan and 
uphold the democracy of (universal) (world- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 101 

wide) (world-redemptive) Love. You cannot 
practice diabolatry and be of the "saved,** **the 
elect,** the sane, the sensible, the truly patriotic, 
the truly conservative, and the truly progres- 
sive. 

Reject Capitalism; the Satanocracy; the house 
of Misrule, Monopoly, Money, War, Debts, 
Bonds, Taxes, Commerce, Theft, Deceit and Suf- 
fering; the Pandemonium; the Temple of Dia- 
bolatrists. Antichrists, Miscreants, Sycophants, 
Betrayers, Hirelings, Hypocrites, Merchants and 
Murderers ; the Abomination of Desolation stand- 
ing where it ought not to stand; the Hell on 
Earth; the House of Ownership. Mat. VL 24; 
VIL 24-29. 

And the elect shall overthrow this pantheon 
of evil gods so that there shall not be left here 
one law (stone) of it standing upon another. 
Mat. XXIV. 1 , 2. Luke XXI. 5,6. We demand 
abundant life. John X. 10. So be it done. Be 
ye doers of the word, not hearers only. Mat. 
XXIV. 35. Jas. I. 22. 



CHAPTER IV. 

You shall produce man at the highest stand- 
ard. You shall cultivate this earth at its great- 
est glory. Every man shall bless the world. In 
this idea you are all a harmonious economic or 
industrial unity or entity. You shall each and 
every one, assist in and add to, the general in- 
tellectual and "material** advance, and therefore 
to the general happiness. For the intellectual 
and the material move in unison. One is the 
reflection of the other. And true happiness ac- 
companies true advance. And untrue happiness 
(suffering) accompanies untrue advance. (Bad 
government. ) 

Value points out the error ownership. An 
index to the lack of truth may exist in truth, 
and is removed when the lack is filled with 
truth. It is like a red lantern at a pit in the 
street — ^when the pit is filled the lantern is re- 
moved. Nature gives signs that tell whether 
human things, thinks, or thoughts, or impres- 
sions, are right or wrong. The reading of these 



104 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

signs is part of the science of Logic. Logic re- 
lates to the verb **to be,'* the verb of active ex- 
istence, or to **the verb** **the word,** the will of 
the living God, the great **I Am,** the great **to 
be** or **being,** the Supreme Active Being. 
Logic is the science of Revelation, of Invention, 
of Inspiration, of Intuition, of Prophecy, or of 
the "Word,** the Mind. And the ''Logos'* is 
the "Word.** John I. 1-5. Elimination of error, 
removal of obstruction, enlightenment or recep- 
tion of light, is advance, progress, the acceptance 
of truth, John XVII. 1 7, "the casting out of the 
devil.** (The advancement of man.) (The Ad- 
vance in man.) (**I and my Father are one.**) 

Man has no greater sense than the sense of 
justice, the sense of true adjustment, the sense of 
truth. 

The human mind, the mirror held up to Na- 
ture, may have upon it darkened or smoked 
places, or may be broken, distorted, etc., etc. 
To perfect this reflector is the task of both sci- 
ence and religion. Or we consider the search for 
truth to be the duty of science. And we con- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 105 

sider the upholding thereof to be the duty of 
true religion. This as we regard it is fidelity, 
faith. John XVIII. 37. Mark XI. 22. This is the 
practice of the noblest of mankind, **the elect.** 
This is the true task of man. Have no faith in 
the accursed fig tree. Capitalism. Mat. XXI. 1 9, 
20. Mark XI. 9-21. Man has advanced as he 
has become allied with (advancing) nature. 
Seek ye first the universal laws. And the re- 
vealed indentures or fits with the unrevealed. 
And all is revealed, to the true instrumentality, 
the eye of faith (reason). And the mental im- 
provement of man is (in) his physical improve- 
ment. And they assist each other. Seek ye 
first the Kingdom of the living God, the God of 
life; is the great scientific, the great prophetic 
and the great patriotic commandment. Mat. VI. 
33. Enter ye into this house. 

Value is the index pointing out the devil, or 
indicating the error of ownership. To abolish 
ownership is to cast out the devil, to cast out 
debt, error, shortcoming, unfulfillment, lack; to 
enlighten, to enliven, to heal, to save; men. 



106 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Value indicates the power of ownership. Value 
is the index of the power of ownership, but the 
power of ownership is counter-power, obstruc- 
tion, and is accounted as debt, shortcoming, non- 
fulfillment, friction, delinquency. The power 
of ownership is sometimes called capital. Money 
is the mathematical or mortal name or number, 
for the power, or rather, obstruction, ownership. 
For the power of ownership or the Money 
Power is not a true power but is born of (a 
devil) resistance to (the true) Power. It is the 
(visible) **mark of the (invisible) beast.** It 
is the visible mark of Capitalism. **The love of 
money is the root of all evil.*' I Tim. VI. 
This love of money is the worship or workship 
of ownership, and in the U. S. the ownership 
of a dollar is the unit or common measure 
of ownership. The passing by of ownership 
brings (you into) the '*Kingdom of God,** the 
truly natural government, the government or 
economy; that unopposedly, untaxedly, un- 
worrifuUy blesses and perfects you. It places 
you where you all take a kindly interest in all 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 107 

your fellow pilgrims, and where you never 
abandon any man. And here your task, your 
yoke, is simple and easy; and your work, your 
burden, is light, pleasant; but the result of your 
effort is transcendental. There is a continuous 
generous benevolent universal influence or ac- 
tion throughout mankind and it is the ac- 
tion or influence of the universal holy public or 
benevolent spirit; and this action should be 
free, unrestricted and unobstructed. It brings 
happiness to all on earth. Peace, Good Will 
toward men. You have been shown this way, 
and also you have been shown that there is no 
danger in taking this way. The way is the way 
of the Life, and this is the way shown by the 
Truth. Take it. Remove every stone (law) 
that obstructs it. Mat. XXIV. 2. 

Good Will is benevolence, sympathy with, 
and accordance in; the plan of creation. To 
have it is truly to subsist of or exist in the 
creation, or to subsist or eat (of the flesh and 
drink of the blood of God, or) of the great be- 
neficence and power of the Creator. (** Whoso 



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eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath 
eternal life, and I will eventually uplift him. 
For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is 
drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and 
drinketh my blood dwelleth in Me, and I in 
him.** John VI. 54-65.) 

Abandon the house of hatred, murder, com- 
merce, thievery, sin, sorrow and suffering. In- 
crease the faith, the true spirit, the general inter- 
change and distribution. Luke XVII. 5. Over- 
come the money despotism. Overthrow tribute, 
taxation, tribulation, and wage slavery, and 
"equal rights'* obtain. Hear **the truth and the 
truth will make you free.'* Weaken and kill the 
laws of usury or interest, and of rent or tax. 
Abolish at once for all debts to be contracted, 
the law^s for the forcible collection of interest. 
And at length abolish all debt. Announce this 
as your policy. Demand now the abolition of 
debt. Establish free freight and communication 
or free circulation, true distribution. Let men 
know it is intended that wage-earning shall 
cease and that the dominion of property is de- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 109 

posed and shall end. Luke L 52. The right of 
property is the wrong of ownership and is per- 
nicious refuse. Capitalism is a vermin infested 
and rot infected rookery that shall be burnt with 
**unquenchable" or perfect fire. Burn it and 
eliminate the debt of the world and work no 
more in it. Enter into the true government and 
abandon the house of capitalism, the desolate 
abomination. Mat. XXIIL 38. 

Solicitude for the well-being of mankind 
characterizes Nature's noblemen and to them we 
appeal. They are the salt of the earth. They 
have in them the spirit of good government and 
in this we trust. They are the truly good 
citizens, the elect of God. They have in them 
the salvation of the world. And they shall be 
saved. Is. XLIL Mat. XXIV. 22. Mark XIII. 20. 
I Pet. I.-V. 

Occupy the dwelling place or **mansion" pre- 
pared for you in the house founded upon eternal 
**rock.** Remove the bars of hell, the laws of 
property and take your true place. Dissipate 
ownership. Disintegrate capitalistic jurispru- 



no THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

dence and see its disorder abate. Hear the voice 
of God. Luke I. 52. XXI. 6, 22. 

Obey the just sentiment, the voice of the spirit 
of general justice, the echo of the true heart, 
the voice of God. Repeal obstruction. Elect 
officials who truly consider the public welfare. 
Depose the **mighty,*' the ^^potentes'' of the 
empire of **real estate,** finance and taxation. 
Luke I. 52. And * 'finance** is a thing that hath 
an end. Now it is fined, finished, ended and 
left in the past. Mat. XXIV. 1 , 2. 

Depose the arrogant, fill the hungry with 
Good Things and let Israel remember Mercy, 
St. Mary (Consolatrix Afflictorum). Luke I. 
47-54. 

The true voice, the voice of God, is echoed 
in the just sentiment and it calls for general 
justice. Install the government of Intelligence. 
Overcome the government of the Boastful Hog. 
Just government is truly adjusted to the natural 
plan and it is the government of Divine Justice 
approved of God. It is not the government of 
the enemy, the adversary, the Prince of Property 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 111 

and of poverty. Mat. IV. 9, 1 0. Luke IV. 6-8. 

By passing money from hand to hand control 
over men is passed and it may be said that the 
government is passed, for the government or 
activity of capitalism consists in the work for 
(the Pow^er of) money. And by counting 
it the sovereignty of capitalism is accounted. 
Therefore the parable of Caesar's penny and 
also the expression **the almighty dollar.** And 
also for this reason some call money * 'frozen 
labor,** but it is not labor that has been done 
for it that is ''frozen,'* but the labor that will be 
done for it, that is controlled. Overthrow 
ownership and the money power dies, the bubble 
of "wealth*' bursts and "economic" calamities 
cease. 

If flour be consumed by fire, the world loses 
its utility, and the owner his power to deny its 
use. Mankind is harmed by the burning of the 
flour, which involves concomitantly the loss of 
its utility or power of subministering to human 
happiness, and this loss is uneconomical, averse 
to good housekeeping. Upbuild. Bless. Em- 



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power. Ennoble. Fulfill. We see the light and 
hear the voice beyond. 

Steadfastness, Courage, Persistence! Do the 
good work of Faith, Reason, Justice, Truth and 
Mercy! Weary not in well doing! Overcome 
ownership and you shall see the government of 
the true peace, the City of Zion, the house of 
Israel, the New Jerusalem, the glorious bride, the 
Kingdom of God, the vision of the prophets 
materialized, incarnated or **made flesh.*' Rev. 
XXI. 1-1 I, 22-27. XXII. And forever she shall 
glorify the Earth and fill the world with good 
things. 

Peace, the peace of healthful growth and of 
happy accomplishment, shall be with you. And 
the world at peace is the world at good work. 
In the world there are many pleasant dwelling 
places. I come to deliver to each of you the 
place prepared for you. John XIV. 2. Fulfill 
the destiny or plan outlined. Live unlimitedly 
the glory of the God within you. Reach the 
goal of the glorified. Have Life abundantly, 
follow the Way, the Truth, and the Life; and 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 113 

you shall have eternal (continuous) (perma- 
nent) health and happiness. Install mercy, not 
sacrifice; kindness, not ownership. Mat. IX. 13. 
XII. 7, 17-21, 25-50. 

In this book, and for convenience in discuss- 
ing value and money; the word "commodity" 
means only merchandise dealt in by weight. 
Learn the idea of specific or relative gravity or 
of the relation or comparison of equi-volume 
weights. In this, the weights of an equal volume 
of different substances are compared to the 
weight of this volume of some one of these 
counted as I. This one of these is called the 
standard. Relate weight to volume as if weight 
were dissolved in volume. For instance, cast lead 
as related to water has the specific gravity II .352, 
which means it is 1 1 .352 times as heavy as water, 
or if any bulk of water weigh one pound the 
same bulk of cast lead weighs I 1 .352 pounds, or, 
as related to bulk or volume, cast lead is II. 352 
times as heavy as water. Relate value to weight 
as if value were dissolved in weight. Money is 
the standardized commodity or the standard 



114 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

commodity. And the relative value of different 
commodities are the same as the ascertained or 
specific values of an equal weight of those com- 
modities as related to the value of a select one 
of them counted as 1 . (This select one is the 
standard; i. e., the money.) 

In modern times money is made of pure silver 
and also of silver alloyed with copper and also 
of gold alloyed with copper. Silver alloyed with 
copper is used for making money in but few 
countries. China is the only country wherein 
pure silver is money. No country makes money 
of pure gold. Most countries make money of 
gold alloyed with copper. And in most of these 
it is .900 fine or nine-tenths gold. But in 
England, Turkey and Portugal it is eleven- 
twelfths gold (22 carats or .916 2/3 fine). The 
monetary system of Canada corresponds to that 
of the U. S. Australia, and most other British 
countries use pounds, shillings and pence. British 
money is 22 carat gold, or gold 22 carats fine; 
a carat in this sense is a twenty-fourth. The 
U. S. uses thousandths. And U. S. money is 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 115 

.900 "fine/* **Fine*' in this sense means pure. 
U. S. money is nine-tenths gold and one-tenth 
copper. U. S. silver coins are also .900 fine. 
These are nine-tenths or .900 silver and one- 
tenth copper. 

The money of the U. S. is its minted gold, its 
gold coin. Other things called U. S. money are 
falsely so-called and are representative of money, 
and being as **good** in common U. S. com- 
merce are therefore loosely called money. These 
are representative or token, called so because 
they are token, tooken, or taken, instead of 
money, and of these are the silver, the nickel, 
and the copper coins of the U. S. which are 
tokens or token coins, and also the paper tokens 
of the U. S. usually called "paper money." These 
tokens are like gambling "chips** or spiel-marks. 
Whoever clearly sees that the gold coin or gold 
coinage of the U. S. is its only money has a 
clear idea. And this clear idea is essential to the 
intelligent consideration of the welfare of the 
people of the U. S. and of the world. 

Distinguish the value of a U. S. gold coin 



116 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

from the thing itself and from the weight of the 
thing itself. Value in the U. S. is expressed and 
accounted by means of the value of the "dollar.** 
This name **dollar" is defined by an act of 
Congress and its legal material substance is 25.8 
grains of alloy, nine-tenths gold and one-tenth 
copper, which is not money until it has been 
minted or moneted by the U. S. mint and thus 
received the proper name and weight and certifi- 
cate. It is then U. S. money, not before and 
it is then the '^dollar'* (of the U. S. A.). The 
money of the U. S. consists of dollars and is 
the gold coin of the U. S. 

The sign of the dollar of the U. S. is $, a 
contraction of the Spanish word **peso," plural 
**pesos,** meaning weight, plural weights, and 
was used by the Spaniards before the English 
colonies of N. A. were planted. It came to 
these colonies through trade with Spain and with 
Spanish America, and through the use of the 
Spanish peso or silver monetary unit; which was 
also the monetary unit of the British Colonies 
on the continent of N. A. at the time of the 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 117 

American Revolution and for some time before 
and after. And in English a peso was called a 
"dollar." The legal monetary unit was **the 
Spanish milled (i. e. minted) dollar." A * milled" 
edge cannot be elegantly put upon a coin by 
hand. 

The word **dollar" is taken from Dutch daler, 
German thaler, the name of a silver piece first 
coined in Joachimsthal about the year 1518 
and called in German a Joachimsthaler, or thaler, 
Dutch daler, English dollar. The sign $ was 
originally a script pp meaning pesos, and in 
times of the American Revolution the S was re- 
versed like a Z, which is the way Spaniards write 
it, and which is like writing a script p with two 
downward strokes. An example of this old 
latin way of making the plural by doubling the 
first letter is LL.D. Doctor of Laws, Legum 
Doctor (of) Laws Doctor. The expression 
"milled dollar," meaning machine-made dollar, 
was used to exclude Spanish and Spanish-Ameri- 
can coins made by hand and sometimes called 
**cut money." In those times these coins were 



118 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

not uncommon in Mexico, C. A. and the W. I. 
and were in some use in parts of Mexico up to 
fifty years ago. And in times of the American 
Revolution they were made in considerable 
quantity. 

Money always has a numerically constant 
value to any given weight. One dollar may buy 
at different times more or less wheat, but this 
fluctuation or variation is charged or imputed 
to the (value of the) wheat. Wheat is said 
to fluctuate in value and gold money to have 
a fixed value. Any weight of wheat has a 
numerically changeable value. Any weight of 
money has a numerically constant value. (This 
numerical fixity is a matter of mortal decree — 
and is not of physical fact.) A constant unit 
weight of a definite commodity is given a con- 
stant unit value and this commodity is then 
called money. This invention is a very early 
one and greatly facilitated commerce, which 
before this or without this, is sometimes called 
**barter,*' a crude method of commerce. 

The unit of commercial account in the U. S. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 119 

is the value of the dollar, which in the dollar 
is always related as 1 value to 1 weight, and 
therefore so related throughout all the millions 
of dollars or throughout all U. S. money. Money 
is therefore said to have a constant value and 
has a constant numerical commercial account 
value to any definite weight. The ownership of 
a monetary unit is the unit of ownership. And 
in the possession of a monetary unit one is 
surely possessed of its value, the unit of value. 
But in the possession of other property, the 
quantity of it that shall have value equal to 
the value of a monetary unit is not fixed, and 
is often very variable. Therefore the monetary 
unit becomes the unit of wages, and its value 
(or equi-valent) the unit of (the power of) 
ownership and this is the "unit of account** in 
commercial exchange. Commerce or * 'com- 
mercial exchange** is the interchange of owner- 
ship. The **unit of value** is the standard 
package. 

And money, of course, is a useful and 
beneficent thing — in Capitalism. It helpeth a 



120 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

niggard's left hand to keep his right hand — 
from giving. And Capitalism is churlish, in- 
humane, cruel, sordid and hateful. Luke VL 
38, 49. The value of the (ownership of the) 
monetary unit is used in commerce or in ex- 
change, for all values are reduced to or standard- 
ized by this value. It is the value of the mone- 
tary unit that is the **standard of value*' or 
standard (unit) value, the commercial account 
unit (the standard commercial package) (**the 
medium of exchange") (the means whereby 
commercial exchange is e£Fected) (the com- 
mercial unit). 

A commodity at 1 2 cents a pound is four 
times as valuable as one at 3 cents a pound. 
This sets forth or expresses relative value which 
is relative power of ownership. It is related by 
(the use of the value of) weights of money. Or, 
the use of weights of money relates value. The 
price that any commodity sells for shows its 
relative value, because it states its value in the 
value of some weight of money. Money always 
sells at a fixed value per fixed weight or at a 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 121 

value fixed per weight and U. S. money always 
sells at I value per 25.8 grain. 

The relative value of money is I . 

This is natural to, or is born of; the fact that 
the value of the monetary unit is I . 

In the commercial exchange of any two com- 
modities (articles sold by weight) the relative 
value is the inverse of the relative weight. The 
relative value is I divided by the relative weight 
and the relative weight is 1 divided by the 
relative value. For instance, if a commodity 
worth 1 2 cents per pound exchange for a com- 
modity worth 3 cents per pound, its weight in 
this exchange will be 1/4 the weight of the 
other, it will be 1/4 as heavy and 4/1 as 
valuable. The inverse of any number is one 
divided by that number. (Value varies inversely 
as weight). 

In any exchange of money for any com- 
modity, the price shows this relationship of 
weight and similarly also shows this relationship 
of value. The value in the price balances the 
value in the weight of commodity it exchanges 



122 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

for. The phenomenon obeys the law of the 
lever or of the steel-yard or roman balance, and 
is of a law of the (balancing of the) (stability 
of the) (compensation of the) (equipoise of 
the) (constitution of the) (regulation of the) 
(ratiocination of the) universe. Now, in any 
exchange of commodities the value per pound 
multiplied by the number of pounds on one 
side of the exchange; is equal to the value per 
pound multiplied by the number of pounds on 
the other side of the exchange; and this equality 
may be called a trade balance, for the values are 
equal, or the one value equals the other. 

The true definition of **price" is weight of 
money, 1 dollar is a price, 1 cent is a price, 
viz. : a hundredth dollar. 

There is but one "denomination*' of money in 
the U. S. which is the dollar and this is divided 
into hundredths called cents, etc. A half dollar 
is 50 cents, a tenth is 10 cents or one dime, 
"disme,** old law French for tenth. **Disme'* 
(now dime) was the word used in the original 
act of the U. S. Congress of 1 783, establishing 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 123 

a new monetary system; and providing for a 
mint. 

The price of any commodity as stated or ex- 
pressed in the markets; that is, the ordinary price 
or everyday price statement of commerce; is a 
statement of the weight of money that will ex- 
change for the given weight of that commodity. 
It is the (statement of the) weight of money 
equivalent to the given weight of that com- 
modity (equivalent — equal in value). If you 
ask a merchant what a thing is worth or what 
its value is, he answers by stating a weight of 
money; a price. 

An avoirdupois pound contains 7000 grains. 
A U. S. dollar contains 25.8 grains. Divide 
7000 by 25.8 and the result is 271.31 79+, 
which we may in this book sometimes write as 
271.31+, or sometimes simply 271.31. In a 
pound of U. S. money there are 271.31 dollars, 
and it exchanges for 271.31 pounds of any sub- 
stance selling at $1 per pound. At 1 cent per 
pound you could buy one hundred times as much 
£18 at $1 per pound. 



124 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Of any commodity at 1 cent per pound you 
could buy 27131+ pounds with a pound of 
U. S. money. U. S. money is 27131 times as 
valuable as any commodity at 1 cent per pound. 

Any market report of the price of commodi- 
ties is a statement of these relative values and 
relative weights, but men do not commonly 
know this. 

Let P be the written sign for any commodity, 
for instance the English name, and let p be the 
price of P in cents per pound and let n be the 
result sought, being the number pounds of P that 
will exchange for a pound of U. S. money. Then 
we have the general equation p: 1 : :271 31 :n, 
or the general statement pn = 27131. If p be 
10 then n is 2713.1 or at the price 10 cents 
per pound it would take 2713.1 pounds of any 
commodity to be equivalent or equal in value 
to a pound of U. S. money. 

If in the above equation n be 1 then p must 
be 27131, which is the price per pound of U. S. 
money, in cents. 

In every market price report of commodities, 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 125 

the (value of the) weight of money on one side 
balances or is counted as balancing the (value 
of the) weight of the commodity on the other 
side. 

And in every market price report of every 
kind the value (the power of the ownership) 
of the merchandise on one side balances or is 
counted as balancing the value of the mer- 
chandise on the other. The value on one side 
of a market report (a commercial price or price 
report) is considered as equal to the value on 
the other side and on one side the value is 
always stated as, the value of a weight of 
money, a price. 

And in every market report, the value is 
stated as the value of, a weight of money, a 
price. Price is weight of money. 

The U. S. dollar is the monetary unit or unit 
weight of money of the U. S. and it weighs 
25.8 grains. It has the weight 1 and the value 1 . 
U. S. money is 271.31 times as valuable as any 
commodity at $1 per pound, or (when their 
weights are equal) their values are as 1 to 



126 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

271.31, and (when their values are equal) their 
weights are as 1 to 271.31. But the one is 
always the inverse of the other, or the weight of 
the money (the pound of the money) is to the 
weight of the dollar per pound commodity as 
1 to 271.31 ; and the (per pound) value of the 
dollar per pound commodity is to the (per 
pound) value of the money as 1 to 271.31. 
The (per pound) value of money compared 
to the (per pound) value of any dollar per 
pound commodity is always as 271.31 is 
to 1, or money is 271.31 times as valuable 
as dollar per pound commodity. The propor- 
tion as written is 271.31 : 1 = 1 : Viii-zi or 
27\3\ : 1 :: 1 : %7i.3i. Now, we call relative 
weight "ratio,'* as was done in the celebrated 
**free silver'* controversy, where a **ratio** of 
16 to 1 was demanded. This was the same as 
demanding the relative value Viq to 1 , or 16 
pounds of silver for 1 pound of gold. It was 
an attempt at dictating the exchange, or at fixing 
the price. To fix the price of commodities is, 
of course, to fix the weight (weights) at which 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 127 

they shall exchange. The relative value of a 
commodity (is its value as compared to the 
value of money and) is equal to the inverse of 
its ratio and its ratio is equal to the inverse of 
its relative value. The inverse of a number 
is one divided by that number. 

All commercial value relates to the value of 
the monetary unit ; and the value in a U. S. 
dollar is related to weight in the proportion of 
1 value to 1 weight; viz.: 25.8 grain. And 
U. S. dollars constitute U. S. money. In other 
commodities 1 value may relate to a different 
weight, as, when potatoes are at 1 cent per 
pound 1 value or 1 power of ownership, relates 
to 100 pounds of potatoes; but in U. S. money 
1 value relates to the constant unit weight, 
25.8 grain, or the unit of value is always the 
value of the monetary unit, and the monetary 
unit of the U. S. invariably weighs 25.8 grain. 
Power of ownership is sometimes called **pur- 
chasing power.'* 

A table of ratios at various prices expressed 
in cents per pound is hereinafter given. The 



128 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

value of any unit of merchandise is expressed 
by means of a price or weight of money. A 
unit of merchandise may be a day's labor, or a 
horse, or a house, or an acre of land, or a pound 
of tea, and in this last case it is sold by weight 
and its price would bear a specific or express 
relation to its weight; not so in the cases of the 
horse, the acre of land, the house, and the day's 
labor. 

To express the value of any unit of mer- 
chandise, a couplet is formed; one of which is 
the unit of merchandise, and the other a weight 
of money, a price. This is (the statement of) 
a trade equation or trade balance. Sugar is 5 
cents per pound. The pound of sugar is the 
unit of merchandise, and 5 cents is the equiva- 
lent (equi-valent) weight of money. The price 
of a cow is $ 1 00. A cow in the market is a 
unit of merchandise. A price is a weight of 
money. The value of I dollar is always 1 (unit 
of value). The value of 1 pound avoirdupois 
of U. S. money is always 271.31 (units of 
value). It is always at I value to 1 weight, or 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 129 

1 value to 25.8 grains. It is always standard, 
or 1 to I , or the value of U. S. money is always 
arithmetically constant at 1 to 1 , or at 1 to 25.8 
grains; 25.8 grains is 1, viz.: 1 weight. 25.8 
grains here means the weight 25.8 times as 
heavy as 1 grain — or a 25,8 grain weight 
counted as a unit weight. 

The monetary unit is the unit of the mer- 
chandise money. Its acquisition is the object of 
the activity called commerce. To gain it is the 
object of life in commercialism. Its ownership 
commands wage earners or salary serfs. In its 
acquisition is the activity of commercialism. All 
money may be called wage money. It com- 
mands all wage slaves. And money is the 
symbol of the power of (hell) the government 
of the devil. 

It is the **mark** (of the government) **of the 
beast." Rev. XIII. 16, 17, XIV. 9-11. XVI. 1, 
2. XVII. 8-11. Money is used for dealing in 
ownership, the purpose of and practice of com- 
merce, because its ownership commands salary 



130 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

slaves. As value is the indicator of the power 
of ownership and as this power is the command 
or sovereignty over wage slaves, you mentally 
may regard yourself as dealing in value; but 
you really deal in what value indicates (owner- 
ship, i. e. oppression, tyrannical taxation). Luke 
IL 1 . You deal in wage slavery, the servitude or 
allegiance of the ownership man, the Mammon 
man; the tax, tribute, wage or money man; the 
Mammonist, capitalist; the commercial **busi- 
ness** man; a sort of a partially humanized 
gorilla; who calls himself the Homo Sapiens, 
and who is a low variety of man as compared 
with the great man of the future, the glorified 
man— the man of the Kingdom of God. (The 
Son of man, the true man — the universal man 
of the humane race.) Grand ideas, great in- 
spirations are angels, messengers of truth, and 
they ennoble, transform, transfigure and glorify 
men and glorify their civilization, their state of 
life, their state in the Life. Luke L 11-17, 
28-33, 35-37, 41-45, 46-55, 67-79. Luke II. 
9-14, 25-35, 36-38, 49. Mat. XVIII. 10. Mark 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 131 

X. 15. They make great or magnify man. 
St. Mary Luke I. 46-55. 

Capitalism is in the negation of the Spirit. 
The Light shines and the darkness comprehends 
it not. The truth shines and (he who is in) 
capitaHsm comprehends it not, for the Truth is 
not in capitalism nor capitalism in the Truth. 
John XVII. 1 7. Capitalism is allegiance to 
Ownership and Ownership is a Satan to be 
cast behind you, a darkness or devil or diabolism 
of the past. John I. 5, etc. Luke IV. Mat. IV. 
The power of ownership is expressed by means 
of money. The thing commanded is the service 
of men. The wage-earning world works for 
money. The thing controlled is the service of 
slaves to the ** Money Power.** The Money 
Power is the **right" of ownership, the * 'Devil.** 
The money-taking, wage-earning or salaried 
world is enslaved to the dark empire of "real 
estate** and * 'finance.** It works to exclude or 
damn men and to aggrandize debt. You shall 
abolish ownership and work only for the good 
of mankind, the distribution and abundance of 



132 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

blessing. Luke VL 38. You shall preserve and 
upbuild the temple of universal happiness and 
of eternal glory. And the Spirit of truth guides 
you into All or divine or universal or eternal 
truth. John XVI. 13, 15, II Cor. IV. 18. 

The utility of money consists in its value, 
power of ownership, or ''purchasing power.'* 
A unit of this is expressed in the value of the 
dollar and consists in its command over the 
services of wage slaves, the command which 
among the heathen is given to (wage or money) 
masters over (wage) slaves. They who are at 
heart wage slaves are at heart capitalists and 
they work for the (power of the) soul of the 
dollar. To work for, is to worship; to serve; 
and men willingly work for what they love; 
so it is that capitalists or wage-slaves, worship 
the (power of the) dollar, the Money Power, the 
Devil. They worship the power of ownership, 
the money power, the devil ("Mammon**). 
They hold dear the religion that degrades and 
oppresses them. They caress their chains and 
fight for them. They worship the idol of 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 133 

negation, repression, oppression, darkness, bru- 
tality, treachery and cruelty, the devil. They 
grovel in their superstition and consider this 
degradation to be good citizenship. They are 
pitiable and lost souls sitting in chains and in 
darkness. And they can rise only when freed 
of their bonds. And to gain heaven they must 
be freed of their chains. And *'they have a 
world to gain and only their chains to lose** 
(Karl Marx). Luke IV. 17-19. Is. LXI. 1, 2. 

Property is plunder. Ownership is theft. 
"La propiete c'est le vol," or '^property is theft** 
(Pierre J. Proudhon). Mat. XXIV. 43, 44. 



CHAPTER V. 



Divide 7000 by 25.8 the quotient 271.3|2«%58 
shows that with one pound of U. S. money you 
can buy of any commodity at: 

$ 1 .00 per pound 271.31+ pounds 

.10 " " 2713.10 

.05 " " 5426.20 

.20 " " . 1356.55 

.01 " " 27131. + 

.02 " " 13565.50 

.03 " " 9043.66 

.04 " " 6782.75 

.05 " " _ 5426.20 

.06 '• " 4521.83 

.07 " " 3875.85 

.08 " " . 3391.37 

.09 '• " „ _..... 3014.55 

Therefore the ratio of any commodity at: 

1 cent per pound is 27131. + 

2 13565.50 

3 ' 9043.66 

4 " 6782.75 



136 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

5 cents per pound is 5426.20 

6 " ** ** •* 4521.83 

7 3875.85 

8 ** .„ 3391.37 

9 •• " ** ** 3014.55 

10 * " 2713.10 

15 •* * 1808.73 

20 " " " " 1356.55 

100 ** " •• " 271.31 

1000 •* 27.131 

10000 ** •• •* ** 2.7131 

27131 • " 1.00 

54262 ** ** •* ** 0.5 

20000 ** ** " " 1.3565 

1695H" ** ** " 16.00 

And this last is the price of silver in cents per 
pound at the rate of 1 6 to 1 . It is the (weight 
of) United States money (gold coin) in (gold) 
cents that it would take to buy a (an avoirdu- 
pois) pound of silver at the ratio of 1 6 to 1 . 
If on this condition silver were the money, the 
same proportion would be true as to weight, but 
we would call the weight of silver the price, and 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 137 

its **ratio" would be 1 , and its relative value 
would be 1 and the ratio of gold Viq and its rela- 
tive value 16. Gold would be relatively 16 
times as valuable as the money (silver). When 
you give money for something you call it buy- 
ing; when you give something for money you 
call it selling. You sell (something) to obtain 
(the ownership of) a price; you buy with (the 
power or ownership of) a price to obtain (the 
ownership of) something. Price is weight of 
money. (You deal in command over wage 
slaves, wage slavery, Capitalism, capitalistic ser- 
vitude or government.) You deal with owner- 
ship or money power and for this and under 
this, ownership or money power slaves work. 
And wage slaves are money power slaves, slaves 
to the money power. (And the power of owner- 
ship is the power of money. It is the power 
counted out by means of money.) 

Now, referring to the above table, the corre- 
sponding relative values are the inverse of these 
ratios, for example, at 10 cents per pound the 
ratio is 2713.1 and the relative value is I divided 



138 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

by 2713.1. This commodity in commerce is 
2713.1 as heavy as money, or its value is /^iis-i 
as great as money. This is the way it balances 
in trade. The ratio of any United States com- 
modity selling at 27131 cents per pound is 1, 
and its relative value is 1 . United States money 
always has this distinction. It is always selling 
or * 'worth'* 27131 cent per pound. 

Money is the standardized commercial com- 
modity. Money is the commodity whose value 
is standardized at 1 value per 1 weight. By 
comparing the value of each article of commerce 
with the value of (the standard quantity of the 
standard article of commerce, which is) the 
monetary unit, the values of all articles of com- 
merce are commercially intercompared. 

The value of some weight of a commodity is 
expressed by naming a price or weight of money. 
And the value of the unit or standard weight 
of money is always 1 . The standard monetary 
unit of the United States is 25.8 grains of 
United States minted gold, which is United 
States gold coin. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 139 

Value itself is a natural mathematical or rela- 
tive voice. It relates, indicates or points out the 
power of ownership, which is also the control or 
command of men, sometimes called **purchasing 
power,** for the power of ownership is command 
of men and is the only thing purchased in com- 
merce. The command of money is the gift of 
the devil. The command of men is the gift of 
God and shall not be purchased with money. St. 
Peter. Acts VIII. 20. Rev. XVIII. 13. The 
commissary shall not be eaten nor the quar- 
ters used controlled nor occupied by owners. 
And we also and consequently evict merchants 
and thieves. XVIII. II. We overthrow Capital- 
ism, the Mother of Merchants. Rev. XVII. 5; 
XVIII. 2. 

In the metric system, the number or name for 
any volume of water is always the same as the 
number or name for its weight. A litre of water 
always weighs 1 kilo. Any number of kilos of 
water is the same number of litres of water. 
Here the unit volume has the unit weight. The 
number for the weight of money is always the 



140 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

number for its value. Its own value is num- 
bered by the number for its own weight as 
weighed by the weight of the monetary unit. 
Its own value is numbered by the number of its 
own monetary units. This is because the mon- 
etary unit has the unit w^eight and also the unit 
value. And this is why you have the name 
1 dollar for the "thing dollar'* and the same 
number or name for the "value dollar." Own- 
ership is exchanged in commerce at the rate of 
the ownership of the dollar. The standard pack- 
age of ownership is the ownership of a dollar. 
The standard package of United States Com- 
merce is the (power of the ownership of) value 
of a United States dollar. 

Value invariably points to ownership. Mis- 
take not the warning for the crime. Value is an 
admonitory signal and even the word "moneta" 
(money) warns. And the work for ownership 
is the service of ownership and is the worship 
of ownership and is the love of money. I Tim. 
VI. 10, 1-9, 1-21. And the prophets warn you 
that the love of money is the root of all evil, 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 141 

the hatred of men. Acts VIII. 20, 21 . And the 
power of the Holy Spirit supersedes the power 
of money. Money and merchants shall perish. 
Acts VIII. 1 8, 20. Men shall reject ownership in 
totality. Ownership fades away from the face 
of the earth. Men rise to a higher life, a higher 
sphere, a new civilization. John XII. 32. XIV. 
3. And the multitude of the heavenly host joy- 
fully sing of peace on earth, for a new world is 
born. Luke II. 12-14. XIX. 38. Rev. V. 13. 

Abolish ownership and immediately there 
shall be one fold and one shepherd. (World- 
wide Peace forever.) John X. 16, 10, 1. 

Discussion concerning money would be easier 
if the value of the monetary unit had one name, 
its weight another, and the thing itself another. 
If you should call the United States dollar a 
**merc,'* its value a 'Val** and its weight a 
**grav,'* then you might say 1 mere always 
weighs 1 grav and always has 1 val. Any num- 
ber of meres always has that number of gravs 
and that number of vals. The 'Val" is the mer- 
chant's **account unit.'* 



142 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

The mere would be the * 'thing'* dollar of 25.8 
grains or 1 grav of the minted gold of the 
United States. An Eagle would be 1 meres, 
weigh 1 gravs and have 1 vals, or have (the 
value) 10 vals. 

All eommereial value relates the 1 value of 
the 1 weight of money. It relates the strength 
of the ownership of the monetary unit, and this 
is its eommand in money or salary or wage serf- 
dom. 

The ownership of the monetary unit is held or 
related at one eonstant indication of the strength 
or power of ownership, and consequently any 
weight of money is held at this proportion or re- 
lation. 

Whenever you state the value or power of 
ownership or purchasing power of any article or 
unit of merchandise you state a weight of 
money. This states its value. The price of a 
day's labor is from 50 cents to $1 .50, or even $5, 
or even higher. The price of a horse is $100, 
of a ton of coal $6, or $9, or $14, of a pound of 
beef 20 cents, of a pound of sugar 4 or 5 or 8 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 143 

or 10 cents, depending usually upon the pov- 
erty and need of the user, the greater the need 
the higher usually the price. If the people 
would demand no ownership they could com- 
mand better conditions, the true democracy, the 
greatest good to the whole nation. 

Value indicates the **dominion of the gen- 
tiles," the government of capitalists, the power, 
the domination, the command of Capitalism, this 
world of belief in ownership, over the service, 
worship or work of men. Mat. XX. 25. Capi- 
talists are ruled by the capitalistic, or wage slav- 
ery and commercial idea, and the general gov- 
ernment known as ''capitalism*' is built upon 
ownership. Its rock is common negation, the 
negation of the community. The "Rock*' of the 
Christ is common union, the communion, the 
community of the unity the unity of the com- 
munity, the brotherhood of man, the (work of 
the) (public spirit) holy spirit. Mat. III. 1 6, I 7. 
And there shall be one shepherd and one fold. 
(World-wide peace forever.) John X. 16. True 
patriotism is allegiance to the government or 



144 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

house of the spirit of truth, **my father*s house,** 
the true patria. Capitalists are patriots of Capi- 
talism, the devil's house, hell. They are sons 
and heirs of the devil. Mat. IV. 9. The true de- 
mocracy is the true theocracy and you shall be 
guided by teachers of truth. John XVII. 1 7. 
I Peter II. 9. Ex. XIX. 5, 6. 

In commerce it is better probably to say inter- 
change than to say exchange, for commerce 
does not exchange anything off of or away from 
the face of the earth. The action caused by the 
interchange of ownership is (the activity of) 
commerce. Do not confound commerce with 
(the) distribution (of goods). Commerce is the 
distribution of negation or denial. It is the dis- 
tribution of the negation of God. Transporta- 
tion is transportation-— carriage. 

In commerce each exchange forms an equa- 
tion. The value on one side is reckoned as 
equal to the value on the other. At 1 2 cents 
per pound 4 pounds of any commodity will ex- 
change for 16 pounds of any commodity at 3 
cents per pound. In any exchange, or, rather, 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 145 

interchange of commodities, suppose you call 
the commodity on one side A, its price per pound 
a, and its number of pounds w, and call the 
commodity on the other side B, its price per 
pound b, and its number of pounds x. Now, in 
any exchange of A for B you state all weights 
in pounds and all prices in cents and you have 
the general equation for all such exchanges: 
aw == bx. 

Suppose, therefore, in aw = bx, that a is 16, 
w is 4 and b is 2, you would have 16 times 4 
equals 2x, or 64 = 2x, 32 ==^ x, or 16 pounds 
of the commodity A (at 4 cents per pound) 
equals 32 pounds of B (at 2 cents per pound). 

This general equation always holds good. In 
aw = bx, suppose that a is 5 and w is 16, and b 
is 1 ; then you have 80 is 1 0x, or 8 is x. Then 
in commerce 5 pounds of A exchanges for or 
balances 8 pounds of B. 

Now suppose in aw = bx that you put for w 
1 and for a 27131; you will then have 27131 
equals bx ; and now for b you put 1 , then you 
have the equation 27131 equals x, which shows 



146 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

that at 1 cent per pound a pound of United 
States money buys 27131 pounds. It is always 
worth 27131 cents per pound, and, as you know 
how much of any commodity it buys at 1 cent 
per pound you can make a table showing how 
much it buys at any price per pound, as has been 
demonstrated. The value of any commodity is 
considered as equal to the value of the weight 
of money exchanged for it. But exchanges are 
frequently made reservedly or unfulfilledly or 
procrastinatedly or in debt or in * 'credit** or the 
money at the time not paid, but agreed to be 
paid later. So that what is usually called the 
credit system is really the debit or debt system. 

The value of any weight of money is always 
(arithmetically) equal to its own weight as 
weighed or divided by the weight of the mone- 
tary unit, which in the United States is the unit 
25.8 grains. 

Proof consists in the fulfillment of prediction. 
And among men, teaching is the showing to 
others of what one has before seen and the 
others not. Anything is itself and never any- 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 147 

thing else nor equal to anything else. An equa- 
tion in mathematics is two statements of the 
same fact — 6 plus 4 equals 7 plus 3, or in fact 
1 is 10. Two or many things may obey some 
specific law, as every point upon the surface of 
a globe is at one distance from the center, 
though no two points on the surface of that 
globe can possibly be the same; they differ in 
position. Mathematical* proof never proves any 
one thing to be equal to any other, but it fre- 
quently brings unknown things or relations into 
the realm of (human) sight or knowledge. It 
frequently serves to clear (the human mind) 
and to extend or enlarge the (human) vision. 
It serves to show relations. For the world of 
material things about us is, so far as we know, 
mathematically regular. This physical world 
seems to be built on a mathematical plan, and 
even its changes and all its variations are mathe- 
matical, so that mathematics seems to furnish 
ladders, stairways, roadways, etc., throughout 
the structure. The natural architecture is law- 
ful, regular, and mathematically consistent. 



148 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

Prophecy consists of long sight and of long 
hearing and therefore of prediction; sooner tell- 
ing, sooner writing, earlier news, greater fore- 
sight, advanced information. 

Any commodity commonly accepted as money 
naturally becomes wages, and conversely any 
commodity established as wages naturally is 
used for money. The wage vassal is naturally 
anxious to count "purchasing power** and so 
is the wage lord. To the wage vassal the count- 
ing of his money is like the counting of his hold 
upon life, and often like the counting of his 
dripping blood. To the wage lord the counting 
of his money is like the counting of his power, 
and if his supply of money is easy and regular 
so is his power. 

To legally fix the monetary unit is to legally 
establish a money. Any mass of money is made 
up of monetary units. In commerce, ownership 
or command over hirelings is exchanged or 
bought and sold. Command over wage earners 
or over the industry of man will be an attribute 
of ownership as long as ownership is legally or 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 149 

publicly upheld among men. Ownership is in 
opposition to the stream of the Free and Uni- 
versal Supply, to the bounty of the God of 
Heaven and Earth. It is a damming of the 
blood of the natural Beneficence. The radical 
cure for the ills of men is to tear ownership up 
by the roots. Mat. XV. 9, 1 3. John X. 1 0. 

The tribute-taking interest collects rent, inter- 
est and profit and counts it in money. The wage 
slave, money helot, or salary serf, interest serves 
for money or serves degradedly, ignobly, and is 
the "servant unto tribute.'* Gen. XLIX. 14, 15. 
As long as ownership exists the money power 
shall rule and the devil shall reign. 

All servitude, service or active life should tend 
to the general conservation, happiness and ex- 
altation of men (of the best in men). Men who 
approve of men working for wages or money 
are capitalists or slaves of the ownership system. 
Its abolition results in the evanescence of the 
debt of the world and in the marvelous progress, 
the great patriotic **uplift*' and the great pro- 
phetic advance. You shall not serve, work for. 



150 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

or worship Mammon. You shall serve the spirit 
of Truth. Ycu shall break down the law of 
ownership, the wall of hell; and you shall see 
the glory of Heaven. 

We now consider the question of the **fluc- 
tuation of prices." Clearly understand that 
prices do not fluctuate. The price 3 cents per 
pound is always the price 3 cents per pound. It 
means the weight of money 3 cents, three-hun- 
dredths of a dollar to the weight 7000 grains of 
some commodity in trade exchange. The price 
3 cents is always the price 3 cents. Price means 
weight of money. The market price 1 dollar 
per pound states the weight of money 1 dollar 
to 7000 grains, or is a statement of the weight 
of money 25.8 grains to the weight 7000 grains 
of some other commodity in trade. The price 2 
cents is 2 cents. The price 3 cents is 3 cents. 
The price 1 dollar is 1 00 cents and is the weight 
25.8 grains of United States money, the United 
States dollar. The price does not fluctuate, but 
the value (the estimation of ownership) may 
fluctuate or change, so that the price which 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 151 

formerly indicated it no longer indicates it or is 
no longer its equivalent. This estimation may 
change from the price 2 cents to the price 3 
cents, as, in a steam gauge, the needle changes 
from one number to another showing different 
indicated pressure, but the numbers do not fluc- 
tuate. But the estimation of ownership in the 
ownership of money is fixed at 1 mathematical 
ownership to 1 mathematical weight. This fixity 
defines money. 

Market prices or market reports are state- 
ments of market balance or equivalence. To 
illustrate the phenomenon commonly called 
''fluctuation of price,** or ''fluctuation of prices,** 
let us indicate the value of money in cents per 
pound by a stake 271 31 ^^%58 feet high; then the 
value of any commodity at 1 cent per pound is 
indicated by a stake 1 foot high, at 2 cents per 
pound, by a stake 2 feet high, at 10 cents per 
pound, by a stake 10 feet high, etc. Because 
money is always worth 2713P^%58 cents per 
pound, the stake for money would always be 
27I3P^%58 feet high, but as the relation of the 



152 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP 

value of other commodities fluctuates, the stake 
today for the value of a pound of some commod- 
ity might be 2 feet high, representing the price 2 
cents per pound, but tomorrow it might be 3 
feet high, representing the price 3 cents (or the 
value of the price 3 cents) for a commercial 
price expresses or states a weight of money and 
presents its value, and also describes an equiva- 
lent. (A commercial price or market report 
states a quantity of merchandise and also states 
its equivalent in money, a price.) Now a stake 
for a commodity having no value would be at the 
zero level and non-existent (or be there only in 
potentiality of increase or of becoming valuable, 
such as something that somebody owns and that 
nobody wants). 

Any process or thing is free in Nature, but 
ownership charges high for transportation. For 
the bringing of anything from anywhere to 
where it may be used may figuratively be called 
transportation. And we will perfect transporta- 
tion, distribution and invention. We will kill 
poverty. Capitalism arrogates all title to supply 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 153 

and its agents sit at every door of the "receipt 
of custom/' Mark II. 14, Luke V. 27, 28. John 
XXI. 19. This last spoke he signifying by 
what life he should glorify God. Wherever you 
see tribute taxation or rent there you see a 
Caesarism, a military conquest, and a tribute- 
paying vassalry. And the title or **right'* is en- 
forced by weapons, and approved by men called 
**judges," also by men called **economists.'* And 
capitalists call the enactment of this fearful trag- 
edy **law and order.'* 

Capitalism, the worship of the devil, deprives 
man of his heritage, keeps him out of his pas- 
ture and denies him his future. Luke IV. 6, 7. 
But capitalism shall fail and fall and there shall 
be one fold and one shepherd. John X. 11-16. 
In capitalism, before blessings or free gifts of 
God can come to man from the future, they are 
prevented by taxation from coming to him from 
the future, and from the future all his blessings 
come. He first must acquire before he can 
transmit. From the future came all the uni- 
verse. Even time comes from the future. From 



154 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

the future man came and to the future does he 
go. Myriads of angels laden with blessings can- 
not now reach him, who would come to him 
from out of the (hand of God) future, were 
they not prevented by ownership wolfishness. 
Destroy ownership and you bring time filled 
with continuous joy (hope fulfilled) (salvation), 
to every man. And he shall have in this pres- 
ent time the divine reward, the full glory of di- 
vine accomplishment, the true happiness of life 
well lived. Luke XVIII. 1 8-30. Mat. XIX. 29. 
A level line 2713P^%58 feet high represents 
the value of United States money, always worth 
2713P^%58 cents per pound, and a level line at 
the height of zero would represent a commodity 
of no value per pound. Now if you should men- 
tally consider value as going into money and 
not into some other commodity, then down goes 
that other commodity in value to another price. 
If you should consider value as going into money 
and not going into any other commodity, down 
go all the other commodities in value to corre- 
sponding lower prices. If you should consider 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 155 

all commodities (including money) as station- 
ary in value except one — not money — and 
should consider value as going into that one, 
then up goes that one in value to another and 
higher price; and if you imagined value going 
out of all but this one, the result is mathemati- 
cally the same. This mathematical discussion of 
value and of prices, or, in fact, of the fluctuation 
of value, is herein but slightly touched upon. 
This consideration of the fluctuation of value 
comprises ten typical cases which include a con- 
sideration of every type of fluctuation possible 
in the marketing of commodities. 

There are 1 real cases or really 1 cases, but 
they reduce themselves apparently to only 5 
cases, or to 5 apparent or outwardly manifest 
cases, for as value can be imagined as going 
into commodities, so it can be imagined going 
out of them. And if it should be imagined as 
going out of one commodity — not money — and 
as stationary in all the others, then that one 
commodity would fall in value to another price. 
If instead of having gone out of that one com- 



156 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

modity it had gone into it, it would rise in value 
to another and higher price, etc., etc. If it 
should be imagined as having gone out of money 
and as not having gone either out of or into any 
of the other commodities, then all of the other 
commodities would rise in the same proportion 
to a higher price. If half the value in money 
should go out of money, then all the other com- 
modities would double in price, or it would take 
twice the weight of money to buy them, but the 
mathematical or relative value of a monetary 
unit is always 1 or unity. And therefore the 
relative value of money is always 1. (It is 
measured by itself as a measure.) A man who 
knows little of change, of variation, of growth, 
of integration and elimination, of incoming and 
outgoing, knows little. 

If value in a definite proportion should be 
imagined as going into all commodities, includ- 
ing money, there should be no change in com- 
mercial prices, no change in the market report. 
For instance, suppose the value in money should 
double and at the same time the value in every 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 157 

other commodity should double, there would be 
no change in market prices. Also there would 
be no change in market prices if half the value 
in money and half the value in every other com- 
modity should go out. Now the last two cases 
are apparently or arithmetically statically the 
same (but not really the same). (The latter of 
the two represents infinitely greater prosper- 
ity.) Now, excepting one commodity, suppose 
value to double in all the others, including 
money, then that one excepted would go down 
one-half in price and all the others would remain 
as before. And if in the last case matters be 
reversed or value be supposed to go out of all 
except the single excepted one, then that one 
would go up in price. This complete discus- 
sion being somewhat long, is not included here, 
but it illumines the subject of money and price 
and relative value and the phenomena of "fluc- 
tuation of prices." It illustrates the prosperity 
resulting from large, sudden and easy accession 
to money, such as the discovery of America, the 
discovery of gold in California and Australia at 



158 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

about the same time, etc. And also it illustrates 
the lack of prosperity or the adversity resulting 
from a retention of money by men in control of 
money, the **hold up" practiced by the usury or 
banking interest or perhaps by the speculative 
interest in conjunction with the great banking 
interest, or at least in conjunction with a por- 
tion of it, in not lending money or in not ex- 
tending certain loans or in enforcing collections 
with rigor, which amounts to a withdrawal or 
partial withdrawal of money from the **mar- 
kets*' or from the general ''business** of the 
country, and in great "profits** to those "busi- 
ness men** properly situated to "make** or 
"reap** or "earn** them. And so the country is 
subjected to continually recurring fleecings of 
many kinds, big and little. And "gainful busi- 
ness** is a son of Babylon and it is opposed to 
the welfare of nations. And it shall die. And 
the abomination shall be destroyed and aban- 
doned. And it stands against the Kingdom of 
God and where it ought not. Mark XIII. 14. 
Rev. XVII. 5. 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 159 

The prosperity of the world would be infin- 
itely greater with value at zero than it would be 
with value at any higher point, or the less the 
value the better, or, better said, the less the 
ownership the better (value indicates owner- 
ship), or it would be infinitely greater in the 
state of affairs without or beyond ownership. 
(This is the state of affairs in which the gifts of 
God cannot be purchased with money.) (St. 
Peter.) This is the state of affairs where there 
is no ownership and therefore no * 'purchase in 
money" and no ownership to be accounted. 

This is the state of affairs in the imagination 
of the Christ and of St. Peter. **You cannot 
serve God and Mammon.'* **Thee and thy 
money perish with thee that thou hast thought 
that the gifts of God should be purchased with 
money." Acts VIII. 20. Luke I. 52. 

He who believes that the gifts of God should 
be purchased with money cannot receive the gift 
or baptism of the public spirit or Holy Ghost. 
He is lacking in the Comprehensive Intelligence. 
Acts VIII. 19-21. 



160 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

He is of the limited, or commercial, or capi- 
talistic, or wage slavery sphere of intelligence. 
If you are a capitalist we beg of you to earn- 
estly consider the recurring butcheries of men 
and the carnage now taking place in Europe and 
the political or **economic** difficulties of the 
world for which there is in capitalism no cure. 
And may this accomplish your conversion or re- 
pentence. Acts VIII. 22. If a repentence or 
change of view or advance of public opinion 
be not effected or if the capitalistic frame of 
mind should continue to prevail, a holocaust of 
great armies would also be offered up here in 
America and blood would flow to horses' bridles. 
But this will never be, for before this, capital- 
ism, the doctrine of ownership, shall cease to 
prevail. Rev. XII. 9, 10. 

This material world is a gift of God to man 
(to use during his time), and so is also the in- 
tellectual world, the world of the intelligence of 
man. Man cannot happily oppose the creation, 
the design. Receive of the Truth, the knowledge 
that sees and that frees, and enter into the Great 



THE NATURAL GOVERNMENT 161 

Freedom. But you shall enter into this Great 
Freedom as true stewards, stewards of the truth. 
And the word is Truth. John XVII. 1 7. XIII. 
32. 

The state of affairs to which the world must 
come, and the more quickly the better, is the one 
in which the value 1 of money becomes 0, or in 
which a money cannot obtain, or in which it is 
impossible to have or to make a money. And in 
this state of affairs ownership does not exist. 
For it is impossible to make or to have a value- 
less money. For value is necessary to the mak- 
ing of a money and to the state of commerce, the 
commercial state. And the commercial state is 
a concomitant of capitalism, the state of owner- 
ship. And the state of ownership is that state 
in which ownership exists or obtains or is up- 
held. That state is * 'capitalism." Capitalism 
shall utterly fall. And that capitalism shall so 
fall, it is necessary that ownership be absolutely 
abandoned or abolished. So be it abandoned. 
Be ye doers of the word. Amen. 



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pound of money in cents per pound appears, and 
also the line showing the value of a pound of 
any commodity worth 9 cents per pound. These 
lines cannot fluctuate and prices do not fluc- 
tuate (but the statements of price, or commercial 
reports change.) Value, commercial power, 
power of ownership, purchasing power, fluc- 
tuates. The value in the commodity yesterday 
worth 9 cents per pound may so increase that 
the line for 9 cents (per pound) does not repre- 
sent it and today it may be represented by the 
line for the price 10 cents (to the pound) or it 
may so diminish as to be represented by the line 
for the price 8 cents per pound, or some other. 
The line for the value of a pound of United 
States money is stationary at 2713P^%58 feet 
high, and the price of a pound of it is always 
27131 ^^%58 cents. We have also placed the stake 
b for the price of 1 cent per pound and this being 
represented at the height of 1 foot then the line 
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(per pound) is a ladder step high, while the line 
for the value of a pound of money is over 5 
miles high. There are 5280 feet in a mile and 5 
miles is 26,400 feet, 731 feet short of 27,131 
feet. The height for the value of a pound of 
United States money, compared with the height 
for the value of a pound of any commodity at 
(the price) I cent per pound, is near twice the 
height counted above mean sea level of the high- 
est mountain in the United States as compared to 
the height of a point 1 foot above mean sea 
level. Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in 
the United States (exclude Alaska), is 14,502 
feet high; McKinley (Alaska), 20,464; Orizaba 
(Mexico), 18,250; Aconcagua, the chief of the 
Columbian Hemisphere and the sentinel near 
**E1 Cristo de Los Andes," which is the great 
American peace statue and monument, 23,393; 
Kilmandjaro, the highest peak of Africa, 19,680; 
but mathematically the value of a pound of 
United States money compared to the value of a 
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few of the peaks of the Himalaya (Hke Mt. 
Everest, 29,002 feet high, the highest measured 
peak in the world) , as compared to the height of 
a rock whose top is one foot above mean sea 
level. Twice the height of Mt. Whitney 
(14,502) is 29,004 feet; 27,131 feet is only 
1 873 feet less than 29,004 feet. 

In Fig. B the element of time is incorporated 
and the true method is shown of representing 
the fluctuation of value or the ''fluctuation of 
prices,*' as it is called. This diagram is marked 
from left to right by 24 equal spaces, each rep- 
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at 5 cents a pound, for the next 6 at AYl cents, 
and for the next 6 at 4 cents. Another sells for 
the first 5 days at 2 cents per pound, the next 4 
at 2 J/2 cents, the next 3 at 3 cents, the next 5 at 
4 cents, the next 2 at 3 J/2 cents, the next 2 at 
2!/2 cents, the next 3 at 2 cents per pound. 

Another sells the first 8 days at 27,134 cents 
per pound, at 1 cent more per pound for the 
next 8 days, and at still another cent higher for 
the succeeding 8 days, and it is more valuable 
than the commodity United States money, and 
will continue to be so as long as it sells for more 
than 27,131 ^^%58 cents per pound. This method 
accurately expresses to the eye, or mathemati- 
cally, the fluctuation of value in commodities, or 
the mathematical relationship of their values for 
any definite weight at any moment of time. 
And any given commercial value is expressed by 
some constant weight of money. And any 
definite weight of money counts as having a 
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wrapped. And the price I is the monetary unit 
and its value is always the value 1 of commer- 
cial accounts. 

In the United States the power of ownership 
of ] dollar is the standard commercial package. 
(It is the **medium of exchange.**) It is the 
commercial account unit (the price report or 
market price of a commodity gives the weight of 
that commodity, and this weight is proportion- 
ally as much greater than the price, as that com- 
modity is less valuable than the price (price is 
weight of money), and the price is proportion- 
ately as much lighter than, as it is more valua- 
ble than, that commodity). The "market price** 
or market report of any commodity tells a weight 
of money (a price ) and tells or describes its 
equivalent in a weight of that commodity. The 
market report of any merchandise tells a weight 
of money and tells, defines or describes its equiv- 
alent in that merchandise. 

Life under proper government progresses reg- 
ularly without fear and in continuous happiness. 
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170 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

the human race. Remove ownership till not a 
vestige of it remain. It is impossible, unmen- 
tionable in Truth, for no error can be said logi- 
cally to be nor can the verb of existence, the 
verb of God, the word: the verb to be or the 
verb is be properly used in connection with any 
error or wrong. And the word is is of the 
magic sign IS and in that sign thou shalt con- 
quer. And thou shalt see the glory that is. 
Value is a logical exponent, the finger of God, 
and it is an admonitory signal, visible to show 
man*s non-compliance with Truth, non-conform- 
ity with the natural realm, lack of adjustment to 
the true plan. Or, to show or apprise him of his 
shortcoming, inadjustment, injustice, debt, delin- 
quency, sin, error, mistake, deviation. And in- 
justice is inadjustment with the true plan. The 
natural and the artificial are alike natural (to the 
circumstances under which they occur). Value 
indicates legal **extortion and excess.** And 
* 'extortion and excess'* is always * 'surplus.** 
(Not in the true plan.) (The happy plan) (the 
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But value, like every other manifestation, is 
never surplus. It is the right thing in its place. 
Value calls the (human) mind to the pres- 
ence of ownership. And the human mind there- 
by discovers the lack of truth in the presence of 
ownership, or the lack of the presence of truth 
in the error known as ownership. It thereby 
discovers the negativeness, the negation of God 
in Mammon. And as value points out a wrong 
let the occasion be removed and it will disappear. 
This is of the language of nature, which is with- 
out mystery, and knows no error, for true 
knowledge is all Truth, or error does not occur 
in Heaven, and lies are not told in the language 
of Nature. And things as they are, are as under 
the conditions they ought to be. Deception is 
without science. Science is without deception. 
Science is without mystery. Science is an open 
book. Science is without deceit. And **con- 
structive'* legislation is legislation that conforms 
to the (natural ) construction, the (progressive) 
creation, the **Kingdom of God.** And the God 
of things as they are is the God of things as 



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(under the circumstances) they ought to be. 
And (the true light) the removal of ill heals the 
sick. Mat. XV. 9, 1 3. 

Abandon the wage, the money, the ownership, 
state or system. Man shall not buy nor sell. 
He shall not * 'purchase" the gifts of God with 
**money." St. Peter. Acts VIII. 20. This abol- 
ishes commerce from the face of the earth and 
the state in which it obtains. Those who advo- 
cate capitalism **shall be destroyed from among 
the people" (by the abandonment of the fal- 
lacy). Men shall not be guilty of ownership 
and shall not commit commerce and shall 
know money no more. Blessed by the Spirit 
are the propertyless, for of them is the Kingdom 
of Heaven, the true government. Men shall 
know more and shall be without money. Mat. 
V. 3, and without thievery, Mat. XXI. 13. 
Mark XI. 17. Luke XIX. 46, and without mer- 
chants, John II. 14-17. Is. LVI. 7. Jer. VII. 7- 
11, 1-6. And the deceitf ulness of capitalism 
shall not choke out the word. Mat. XIII. 22. 
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Every soul which will not hear that Prophet 
(or prophecy or Word of the Spirit) shall be 
destroyed from among the people. St. Peter. 
Acts III. 23. That is, all men or mankind will 
become too enlightened to practice capitalism, 
which is a species of cannibalism. Repent ye, 
therefore, and be converted that not yourselves 
but your sins may be blotted out (Abolita), and 
then the times of refreshing (continuous or per- 
manent prosperity) (Flourishing times) shall 
come from the presence of the Lord. And he 
shall send Jesus Christ which before was 
preached unto you, who in heaven must remain 
(unknown to you) (misunderstood by you) un- 
til the times of the restitution of all things (the 
abolition of the wrong of ownership, **the right 
of property") which God has spoken by the 
mouth of all his holy prophets (true spokes- 
men) since the world began. Acts III. 19-36. 
Mat. XVII. 1 1 . Capitalism is inefficient, cruel, 
cumbrous and calamitous. 

Ownership is opposed to the Spirit of Truth, 
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follow the line of prophecy. And it is inimical 
to the happiness of man, and to the teaching of 
the Christ. Mat. XII. 25. John XII. 26. Now 
shortly are the times of which before this time 
no man knew, the ** times of the restitution of all 
things,'* the abandonment of the wrong of prop- 
erty, the abolition of the debt * 'system** or 
**house.** Down falls capitalism, the house of 
ownership, of **bonded indebtedness** and of 
taxation. Mat. XXIV. 36. Mark XIII. 32 and 
34-37. Mat. XXIII. 37-39. XXIV. 1, 5, 22-24. 
Luke XXI. 6, 20, 22, 24. Ownership is adverse 
possession, possession adverse to the public 
spirit, the holy spirit, the spirit of truth, the 
spirit of enlightenment, for the glory of man 
consists in the absence of ownership. Luke 
XII. 15. I Tim. VI. 5, 7, 9, 10, 17, 18, 20, 21. 
And "shares** of **stock** are shares of owner- 
ship. 

Command over men is related by weights of 
money. Prices show not public prosperity, but 
rather public adversity. To tell land owners 
about the glories of "dollar wheat,'* or **two- 



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dollar wheat," or "five-dollar wheat,'* or "ten- 
dollar mutton," or **25-cent beef," or *'50-cent 
hog," or **50-cent wool" does not encourage 
men whose families are on the verge of starva- 
tion, the rim of death. The Mammonist cares 
nothing for humanity in general and he boasts 
that he is a money getter, a "practical business 
man," and no "idealist." And he has the insol- 
ence to demand that the United States govern- 
ment shall be run for his benefit. But it takes 
ideals and idealists to upbuild man, and the 
higher the ideal the better the man, the better 
the government, the better and the happier the 
world. John I. 32-34. And we hold inviolate 
the principle of the divine (human) welfare. 
Mammonism is in disagreement with the true 
policy of government. And it is futile to con- 
sult Mammonists or capitalists as to what had 
best be done for the good of the world. Mat. 
VI. 24. Luke XVI. 13-17. 

The science of the world of human happiness 
is the science and the world of the right living 
of the Life and is beyond and above the realm 



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of arithmetic. Happiness is beyond and above 
the world of computation. Happiness cannot be 
counted in money nor in any other thing. And 
men cannot count it. They have no arithmetical 
unit of it. 

Happiness is immeasurable by number and 
unaccountable in money. Man cannot measure 
it by number nor set a mortal or numerical 
boundary upon it. It is of the Infinite. It is of 
the expression of the Immortal. When you are 
truly happy, Heaven itself is happy and the 
Spirit of Creation sympathizes with you or in 
you. Therefore, to labor for the happiness of 
men is to labor for Heaven, for the happiness of 
God, the Great Spirit, the Spirit of Truth. It is 
to be accordant with, or to labor in, the glory of 
the creation, to truly partake of the blood 
(power) of God. John VI. 54. The divine con- 
secration is in this service and it constitutes the 
catholic solidarity. As you do a good act to or 
do a good thing for one of the least of men even 
to the giving of a cup of cold water, so you do 
it to God himself. Mat. XXV. 40, and so also 



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as to an evil act. And also the refusal to do a 
good act is an evil act. 45. The public aboli- 
tion of ownership is an act of Mercy, honoring 
You and blessing all Mankind. It benefits and 
glorifies you. It exalts you in the Creation. It 
brings you near the Creator. It glorifies you by 
magnifying, by increasing, by glorifying the 
God in you. And whatever glorifies you glori- 
fies man and glorifies every man and glorifies 
God. Put merchants and merchandise out of 
the temple, the government. Expel salesmen 
from the apostleship. Put them out of office. 
Put office or authority beyond them. John 
XIII. 31. Mat. XII. 7, 25. (Put commerce 
behind the times. Luke IV. 8.) 

Numbers, or number, is used to represent the 
relations of distances, times, powers, forces, 
points, positions, vibrations, and such like things, 
but it cannot be used to express human happi- 
ness. The expression of the human soul baf- 
fles mathematics. Joy cannot be mathemati- 
cally measured or stated. Happiness, the pleas- 
ure of imagination, or of the soul, is immeasur- 



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able in arithmetic. The (true) happiness of 
man is beyond the computation of money, and 
beyond the comparison of mammon, and it is in 
the plan that shall be accepted, and it is not 
measured in mortal number not told by mortal- 
ity. The true government is measured in life 
everlasting, and the true happiness is told by im- 
mortality. 

The human soul is beyond mathematics. But 
mathematics may express relative material op- 
position to human happiness and also relative 
material conformity thereto, and in this manner 
man may be marvelously, miraculously, assisted 
by mathematics. The standard of science is 
Truth, accordance, exactness, perfection. **Be 
ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is 
perfect.** Be ye in perfect accord with the will 
or Action or Plan of the Universe, with the Cre- 
ator, and in the Creation. Perfection is your 
standard. Negation, monopoly, ownership, has 
no law of right (Life) to sustain it and therefore 
no right (to live), (to exist), (of existence). 
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lack. It has no truth to sustain it and therefore 
it is without the holy city and among wolves, 
sorcerers, merchants, murderers, false worship- 
pers and all those that love lies and make them. 
Rev. XXII. 14, 15. 

Abolish ownership instantly, for ownership is 
alliance with death, covenance with hell. It is a 
**plant not planted of my Father," and it **shall 
be rooted up." Mat. XV. 9-13. *Te cannot 
serve God and Mammon." Noblemen are **doers 
of the word," "sons of God." And the blood 
of God is of one nobility. Acts XVII. 24-34. 
And you shall not pay taxes, tribute unto Cae- 
sar. Luke XXIII. 2. 

Be ye doers of the word, disciples of the 
school of the new commandment and citizens of 
the positive world, the world of what you shall 
do, which supersedes the negative world, the 
world of what you shall not do. John XIII. 34- 
36. XIV. 15, 21, 23, 24. XV. 4, 10, 12, 14. 
IV. 20. And again be ye doers of the word, not 
hearers only. Jas. I. 22. Mat. VII. 21. Luke VI. 



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46-49. VIII. 21. X. 28. XI. 28. And this is 
(in) fulfillment. And for the true or right use 
of the laws of nature you shall have abundance 
and happiness and shall come into all that 
Heaven has to give you. 

The highest order of work to be done, the 
duty of all and of everyone is the work in the 
public or holy spirit. Do you this First. 

You need wherewithal to eat, drink and be 
clothed. Do you First the work of the holy 
spirit, and all these things you shall all abun- 
dantly have. This work is the first duty of man. 
In it is the true religion. In it is the fulfillment 
of the Law. Mat. VI. 33. Luke XII. 3L Mat. 
VII. 7. Luke XI. 9, 28, 27. Rom. XIII. 10. 
Any just law brings general happiness to the 
world. The call to Israel is **The Lord thy God 
is one God." The royal law is *'Do unto others 
as you would have them do unto you.** Jas. II. 
8. The gift to him who is faithful is: the keys 
of the universe. Mat. XVI. 1 9. This is the Free- 
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mandment and rule is that "you shall love the 
Lord your God with all your heart and your 
neighbor as yourself.** And there is none 
greater. And you have not fulfilled it. And to 
love your neighbor as yourself merges with to 
love your God. And you have heard and un- 
derstood the comprehensive rule that **you shall 
have love one unto another,** and many of you 
have heard with your ears only and have not 
even tried to obey it, and many of you have 
limitedly obeyed it, and many but grudgingly 
obeyed it, and many have ignored it, and many 
have boastfully disobeyed it, and therefore the 
good things of God many of you have imper- 
fectly and inequitably and even iniquitously re- 
ceived and distributed. 

For it is an eternal law that as you love the 
creation by that measure are you blessed by the 
Creator and in the creation. And those who 
love the creation are the elect. Infinite, un- 
bounded by mathematics, is the glory prepared 
for the elect. Mark XIII. 13, 20, 22, 27. I Cor. 
II. 9. And the glory of the race is the reward 



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prepared for the elect. But the elect serve God 
and cannot serve capitalism. And they are those 
who love to hear the truth, the word of God. 
John XVII. 1 7. I Cor. II. 9. 

The imperative commandment, the imperial 
mandate of the Light of the World, the Lord of 
Lords and King of Kings, that you shall seek 
first the Kingdom of God and its rightfulness 
and His assurance and promise that by and 
through this all material things shall be added 
(freely given) unto you, you have heard but not 
well obeyed nor well understood, nor have you 
generally known how to obey, for generally you 
have heard faintly and have asked little and 
cared little and loved little. Fulfill! Perform 
you the command and He will coincidently per- 
form the promise. Fulfill the command and the 
promise will be coincidently fulfilled. Now you 
have no true excuse for your fault and now you 
shall ask more and shall receive and shall know. 
John XV. 22-27. IX. 40, 4L Luke XII. 47, 48. 
And you shall have life and shall have it more 
bountifully. John X. 1 0. The word of God is 



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Truth. And you shall know the word of God 
and the word of God will make you free. John 
VIII. 32. XVII. 1 7. And (true) freedom is (in) 
fulfillment. Freedom is in the fulfillment of the 
word of God. This is the true freedom, the 
**new freedom." This is the freedom of the 
**New Commandment.'* And in this freedom 
is the salvation of the world. 

Open the door of your heart to the freedom 
of yourself and to the freedom of all the world. 
Enter into the new freedom and true govern- 
ment, the Kingdom of God, the new world, the 
world beyond taxation and money, the day of 
Justice, the day of Judgment, the day of (nat- 
ural) atonement, the acceptable year. Luke 
IV. 19. 

To hear Truth and do it is (in the process of) 
fulfillment. And blessed in it are you. Luke 
XI. 28. Mark III. 35. And fulfillment is obe- 
dience to Truth. And perfect progress is in ful- 
fillment, the immortal glorification of man and 
of the Son of Man, the Christ, the Emmanuel, 
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perfect attainment. And it doth not yet appear 
what we shall be, but we know that when it 
shall appear, we shall be godlike, for we shall 
see God as he is. And every man who hath 
this hope in him purifieth himself even as this 
thought is pure (clear) (logical) (noble) (in- 
spired). I John III. 2, 3. And as you advance 
more you shall be told more. John XIV. 26, 1 7. 
XV. 26. XVI. 1 3. You shall not be abandoned. 
You shall be guided and comforted. XIV. 18. 

And every good deed is done to immortal 
glory, and (shall be) for the good of mankind 
forever. Mat. XXV. 34-41. Be ye doers of 
the word. 

And when you do the will that shall be done 
in earth as in heaven, then you do the w^ord. 
Then you do truly **make flesh'* incarnate 
transform, evolve, unfold, grow, progress, ex- 
press, exist, be, live. John I. 14, 1 5-34. 

The word of God is Truth, and it is always in 
Love (natural harmony). To live well is to 
love well. These rules and directions are given 
to you, one and all, that you may all have life 



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everlasting and the glory thereof, the ever-on- 
coming and ever-present continuity of happy 
and glorious human life. Mat. XIX. 29. Luke 
XVIII. 29, 30. John XV. 6-27. XVI. 13. And 
Love is (manifested) (heard) in the harmony 
of the creation, the natural or universal har- 
mony, the song of the stars, the music of the 
spheres, and in the bubbles upon the vsrater, and 
in the movement thereof, and in thine own har- 
mony in life, thine own atonement with the 
true creation. Ps. XIX. And be ye faithful in 
the (little) things (of life) that you now have 
and you shall be (made) masters of the whole 
creation (the universe). Mat. XXV. 23, 30, 34. 
Luke XIX. 17, 27. No ignorant nor indiflferent 
nor ignoble soul can be called truly free. And 
no sordid soul can be of the elect. He is a son 
of hell. Mat. XXIII. 10-15. John XVII. 12. 
Let the cry of your heart be: Freedom First. 
And let it take in all the world. John VIII. 32. 
And no self-seeker (capitalist) shall reign in the 
world of Love, nor rule in the true government. 
Mat. IV. 10. Luke IV. 8. John XVII. 12. 



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Acts I. 20. Mat. X. 39. And every hireling is 
a son of perdition and careth not for the sheep. 
John X. 13. He hath not the true patriotism. 
Receive the light of the world. Open the door 
of your soul to your own true freedom and to 
the freedom of all the world. This freedom is 
in the Kingdom (character) (house) (govern- 
ment) (Will) of God. It is expressed in pro- 
gressive and universal harmony. The true hap- 
piness of man is in this freedom. This happi- 
ness is in the true freedom, the **new freedom,*' 
the true government, the new government. John 
XIII. 34, 35. 

Seek this freedom first and all the (spiritual 
and material) blessings of the universe will be 
freely given (added) to you. Luke XVIII. 29, 
30. Mat. XIX. 29, 30. Mat. VI. 33. Luke 
XIL 31. 

And all blessings are spiritual. And what you 
call spiritual is as real as what you call material. 
And you cannot by false assertion truly add or 
subtract. Let every man be attentive and care- 
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tittle of the law shall fail, but all shall be ful- 
filled. Mat. V- 17-20. Mat. VI. 16-27. 

The abolition of ownership frees the world, 
installs the true government and settles the in- 
dustrial question right. And there shall be free 
production distribution and consumption. The 
abolition of ownership insures to each and all of 
you the possession of those things you should 
have for the time that you should have them. 
The abolition of ownership empowers, encour- 
ages, ennobles, frees and unifies the human race 
and glorifies the Son of Man. John XVII. 1 1 , 
12, 21. John XIII. 13, 16, 19-31. And to 
glorify the Son of Man is (in the process of) 
fulfillment. The abolition of ownership over- 
throws tyranny and repression, and overcomes 
the oppression and opposition of the ignorant, 
uninspired and unglorified. The abolition of 
ownership freely allows those who seek the 
truth, the true, the elect, the natural leaders, the 
true masters, the true leaders of mankind, to 
continuously and happily lead it to the Great 
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glory of (human) attainment (the perfection 
of the human race and its habitation) (the high- 
est goal of the incarnate soul) (the divine atone- 
ment, John XVII. 20-26) (the will, government, 
that shall be perfectly at one with the divine or 
be done as in heaven so in earth) (the perfec- 
tion of men) (the perfect man) (The All in 
Man) (the highest glory of God in earth) (the 
greatest glory of man). John XIV. 1-3, 23. 
John XVII. 1-26. And we know not yet ex- 
actly what this shall be nor what we shall be, 
but it is revealed to the great writer and told to 
us that we shall be Godlike. I John III. 1 -3, 1 5- 
18,24. John I. 49-51. XIV. 1-21. XVII. 15, 
21-23, 24-26. And every one who sees this is 
of the elect. I John III. 3. I John III. 1-3. IV. 
Mat. XXIV. 22-31. Mark XIII. 20, 22, 27. 
Isaiah XLII. 1. XLV. 4. LXV. 9, 22, 25. I 
Peter II. 6. Rom. VIII. 1-39. Col. III. 4 and 1- 
25. And for the sake of the elect the time of 
tribute and of tribulation shall be cut off and the 
glory of the true government be visibly estab- 
lished. Mat. XXIV. 22. And now (A. D. 



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1917) this cutting off is near. Mat. XXIV. 32, 
33. Prepare for this prophetical fulfillment, 44- 
5 1 , this new dispensation, this glorification. 
John XIII. 31. XVIL4, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17,22. 

This new state of affairs will come upon the 
world like the falling of a snare. Luke XXI. 35. 
You cannot serve God and ow^nership, therefore 
serve God and your house will not be divided 
against itself. And the elect from the four 
winds and, as it w^ere, from the clouds of heaven, 
shall come with pow^er over all the earth from 
one end to the other. Mat. XXIV. 31. Mark 
XIII. n. Luke XXI. 27. And they shall guide 
with justice and control with peace and plenty, 
the affairs of men. And where the clear-sighted 
clearly see to safely lead, the blind can safely 
follow. 

Abolish ownership, and your house, your gov- 
ernment, is always just and ever consistent. 
And it is also unerringly, happily, universally, 
divinely glorious. And in this house there is 
that perfect confidence, that true faith, that love 
that casteth out all fear. I John IV. 18. In 



190 THE ABOLITION OF OWNERSHIP: 

this house there is peace on earth, good will 
among men. In this house Heaven and earth are 
at one. John XVII. 2 1 . And in this house you 
shall do the great things, the things that Mam- 
monists can never do. John XIV. 1 2. For in 
this house there is that peace which satisfieth all 
understanding. Ph. IV. 7. John XIV. 27. XVI. 
33. This house is the Kingdom of God, the 
true government of men. 

It is the will of God that it should come. 

Let it come. Mat. VI. 7-13. Luke XI. 2-4. 

And the revelation of what men should do 
and of what they in their hearts should be, is 
free and uninterrupted, and men see it and hear 
it even as they desire it, and shall have it even as 
they deserve it. Ps. XXXIV. 18. LI. 17. Is. 
LVII. 15-21. LXVI. 22-24. And the good voice 
and the true voice are one. And those who hear 
the good voice and desire it, and welcome it, and 
obey it, they hear the word and do it, and they 
are the meek, and they are the faithful, and they 
are the elect, and they shall inherit the earth. 
John X. Mat. V. 5. Luke XI. 27, 28. 

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government, the holy spirit, govern in earth as 
in heaven, and you shall see grander things 
than you have ever seen. And you shall do 
greater things than the greatest of men has ever 
done. John I. 50, 51. Luke X. 17-37. John V. 

20. XIV. 12. 

You shall be freed from the money god, the 
spirit of evil, the devil. Mat. IV. 10, 11. Luke 
IV. 8, 1 8-2 1 . And you shall be delivered from 
all evil. Mat. VI. 1 3. Luke XI. 4. You shall 
live in the true way and you shall have the per- 
fect happiness, the divine peace. John XIV. 27. 
You shall be truly free. John VIII. 32. XVII. 
17. You shall enter into the eternal glory. 
John III. 1. John III. Jude 24, 25. You shall 
have the glory divine. John XVII. 22. You 
shall have the perfect government and the per- 
fect citizenship. Acts III. 2L Mat. XVII. II. 
Mark IX. 7. Rev. XXIL 14, 15. XXn. 14-21. 

Come. Rev. XXI I. 1 7. Come and you shall 
enter into the perfect government, the King- 
dom of God. Come, and the grace of the per- 
fect vital action shall be with you. Rev. XXII. 

2 1 . Amen. 



